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LIST OF BOOKS 



RECEIVED BY THE 



AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 

FROM THE SALE OF THE FIRST PART OF THE 

BRINLEY LIBRARY; 

TO WHICH IS ADDED A CATALOGUE OF THE 

MATHER PUBLICATIONS 

PREVIOUSLY IN THE SOCIETY'S LIBRARY. 

ARRANGED, AND COLLATED, WITH NOTES, 

BY NATHANIEL PAINE 



LIST OF BOOKS 



RECEIVED BY THE 



AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 



FROM THE SALE OF THE FIRST PART OF THE 



BRINLEY LIBRARY; 



TO WHICH IS ADDED A CATALOGUE OF THE MATHER PUBLICATIONS 
PREVIOUSLY IN THE SOCIETY'S LIBRARY. 

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PRESS OF CHARLES HAMILTON. 
1879. 




BOOKS 

RECEIVED BY THE 

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 
From the Library of the late George Bkinley. 



Undoubtedly the most valuable gift of books to the Anti- 
quarian Society, since that of its founder, Isaiah Thomas, 
is that lately received from the heirs of the late George 
Brinley of Hartford, Conn.. The circumstances attending 
this generous gift will be best understood by reading the 
following letter from the administrators of Mr. Brinley's 
estate : — 

Hartford, Conn., Feb. 24, 1879. 
To the Hon. Stephen Salisbury, LL.D., 

President of the American Antiquarian Society. 

Dear Sir: — The late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, when he 
decided that his American Library should be sold by auction, 
intended to give certain institutions and societies, which he desig- 
nated, the opportunity of obtaining at the sale, free of cost, such 
of his books as they should respectively select for their libraries 
to the value in the aggregate of twenty-five thousand dollars. 

Though this intention was not expressed in Mr. Brinley's last 
will, and his widow's purpose to ratify the gifts by a formal 
bequest was defeated by her decease intestate, his and her children 



4: 

take pleasure in giving the intention effect, and you are hereby 
informed that the American Antiquarian Society is authorized to 
bid off, at the sales of the Brinley Library, books for the library 
of the Society to the amount of five thousaud dollars ($5,000), 
and that one-half of this amount — or a less proportion, at your 
option — may be so taken from the First Part of the Library, 
which is to be sold in New York, on the tenth day of March next 
and days following, by Messrs. Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., auctioneers. 
A copy of the sale-catalogue is herewith forwarded to you. 

As soon as practicable after the sale you will please furnish us 
with a statement of the amount to which books shall have been 
so bid off for you, and thereupon a proper credit for this amount 
will be arranged for you with the auctioneers. 
We are, very respectfully, 

Your obed't serv'ts, 

G. P. BRINLEY, 

J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL, 

Administrators. 

To this very liberal offer, voluntarily made by the children 
of Mr. Brinley, to carry into effect plans formed by him, 
but which had not been legally completed, the following 
response was made in behalf of the Antiquarian Society by 
the President : — 

[a copy.] 

American Antiquarian Society, 
Worcester, Feb. 27, 1879. 
George P. Brinley, Esq., 
J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., 

Administrators of the Estate of late George Brinley, Esq. 

Gentlemen : — In behalf of the American Antiquarian Society I 
thankfully acknowledge your favor of 24th inst. communicating 
the offer of the heirs of George Brinley, Esq., to that Society 
of the privilege of bidding off, free of cost, at the auction of the 
library of Mr. Brinley, on March 10, books for the library of that 
Society to the amount of $5,000. The Society will avail them- 
selves of this privilege with a deep sense of their obligation to a 
friend to whom they have before been repeatedly indebted. The 
Society fully and gratefully appreciate the wisdom of Mr. Brinley 
in an arrangement most favorable to the largest usefulness of his 
excellent collection, and the good judgment aud generosity of 
his family in carrying out his plan. 

Very respectfully yours, 

STEPHEN SALISBURY. 



The balance of the gift referred to in the letter of the 
administrators, was divided as follows : To the library of 
Yale College, $10,000; the Watkinson Library of Hartford, 
Conn., $5,000, and the New York Historical Society and 
Penn. Historical Society, $2,500 each. 

The first part of the catalogue of the library, represent- 
ing, it is supposed, about one-third of the whole collection, 
was promptly forwarded to the society. This catalogue, pre- 
pared by J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D., Secretary of 
Foreign Correspondence of the American Antiquarian So- 
ciety, is a volume of 306 pages, including over 2,600 titles, 
and, with the instructive notes added by the compiler, is a 
valuable addition to bibliographical literature. 

The sale began at the rooms of Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., 
Clinton Hall, New York, on Monday, March 10, and con- 
tinued through the week, attracting a large number of 
gentlemen connected with the public libraries of the country, 
as well as many noted individual collectors. The sale was 
conducted by Joseph Sabin, the veteran bookseller of 
Nassau street, New York. 

Mr. Nathaniel Paine, the Treasurer, and Mr. Edmund M. 
Barton, the Assistant-Librarian, were deputed to attend the 
sale in behalf of the Antiquarian Society. 

The additions to the library made from this source con- 
sisted of two hundred and twenty-seven books and four 
hundred and fifty-nine pamphlets; the latter bound in 
convenient size, and arranged according to subjects. 

The titles given in the following list are taken from the 
catalogue, but are arranged in chronological instead of 
alphabetical order. The works of the Mathers are given by 
themselves after the list of general titles. Nearly all of 
the publications of the Mathers are handsomely bound by 
Bedford, Pratt, and other noted binders. 



LIST OF PURCHASES. 



Lactantius (L. C. F.) Divinarum Institutionum Libri vii. etc., old 
stamped leather on thick oak boards, clasps, large, well preserved 
copy. 4° Basilece, Andr. Cratander. 1521. 

A scarce edition. Title, within curious wood-cut border. Auto- 
graphs (and MSS. notes on fly-leal) of Increase and Samuel Mather. 

Mardochai, Nathan. Meir JVetib. Concordantiarvm Hebraicarvm Cap- 
ita : translata per Ant. Reuchlinum Isnensem, old calf, folio. 

Basilece, Henr. Petri, [1556.] 
Autograph, "Crescentii Matheri Liber, London, 1691." 

Bullinger. Sermonvm Decades Qvinqve, de Potissimis Christ. Re- 
ligionis Capitibvs, Authore Heinricho Bullingero. Torni III. in one 
volume, (42) and 496 ff. 8° Londini, Henr. Midletonus, [1584.] 

Autogr. il Crescentius Matherus," "S. Matheri 1720," and MSS. 
notes. The first EDglish edition of Bullinger's Decades in Latin. 

Ainsworth (Henry). An Animadversion to Mr. Richard Clyfton's Ad- 
vertisement, [Wherein] the true causes of the lamentable Breach that 
hath lately fallen out in the English exiled Church at Amsterdam [are] 
manifested, pp. (8), 138. 4° Amsterdam, Giles Thorp, 1613. 

From the Mather library. Autograph of Increase Mather, "Cres- 
centii Matheri Liber ex douo Thomae Schermandini, Londini, 1691." 

Adam (Melchior). Vitae German Orum. Theologorum, ad annum us- 
que. 1618. 
deductae, old calf. thk. 8° Haidelbergce, 1620. 

Autogr. of Dr. Samuel Blather, on title, and a note in the hand 
of Bichard Mather, on guard-leaf. 

Las Casas. Tyrannies et Crvavtez des Espagnols commises es Indes 
Occidentales, . . . traduitte en Francois par Iacques de Miggrode, 
title in red and black, pp. (22), 214. sm. 4° Bouen, J. Cailloue\ 1630. 

Ames (Wm.) Anti-Synodalia Scripta, vel Animadversiones in Dog- 
matica ilia, quae Remonstrantes in Synoclo Dordracena exhibuerunt, 

sm. 12° Amstelodami, J. Jansson, 1633. 

Herodiani Historiae sui Temporis libri vni. In Linguam Latinam con- 
verses ab Ang. Politiano; ed. Dan. Pareus, etc., calf, 

8° Londini, Th. Harper, 1639. 

"Cottonus Matherus" (autogr.) on title and on p. 30, and a few 
MSS. notes. 

Cotton (John). Gods Mercie mixed with his Ivstice, or, His People's 
Deliverance in times of danger, laid open in severell Sermons, pp. 
(8), 135, 4° London, 1641. 

Cotton (John). A Modest and Cleare Answer to Mr. Ball's Discourse of 
Set Formes of Prayer, pp. (4), 49, (i), 

4° London, B. 0. & G. D. for H. Overton, 1642. 

Another edition, 8° London, for H. Overton, n. d. (2 vols.) 

Rogers (Nathaniel) of Ipswich. A Letter discovering the Cause of God's 
continuing Wrath against the Nation, Directing To the Meanes of 
appeasing that wrath, Written By Mr. Nathaniel Rogers, a godly 
and Learned Divine now in New-England, To a Worthy member of 
the House of Commons, Dec. 17, 1643 pp. (2), 10, 

4° London, 1644. 



Essex Witches. A true and exact Relation Of the Severall Informa- 
tions, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches, executed 
in the County of Essex [England], arraigned and condemned at 
Chelmesford, 29 of July, 1645. Published by Authoritie, pp. (8), 36, 
sm. 4° London, M. S. for Henry Overton and Benj. Allen, 1645. 

A Word to Mr. Peters, and Two Words for the Parliament and King- 
dom; or, An Answer to a Scandalous Pamphlet entituled "A Word 
for the Armie," etc., subscribed by Hugh Peters, pp. 3-38, 

8° London, 1647. 

This reply has been attributed to the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, author 
of "The Simple Cobler." See J. W. Dean's Memoir of N. Ward, 
pp. 174-5. 

Usher (J.) Annales Veteris Testamenti. folio, Londini, 1650. 

Autographs of I. Mather and Samuel Mather, 1723. 

Whitfield (Henry). The Light appearing more and more towards the 
perfect Day. Or, A farther Discovery of the present state of the In- 
dians in New-England, Concerning the Progresse of the Gospel 
amongst them. Manifested by Letters from such as preacht to them 
there. Published by Henry Whitfeld (so), late Pastor to the 
Chuch (so) of Christ at Gilford, pp. 46, 

sm. 4° London, T. B. & E. M. for John Bartlett, 1651. 

Ames (Wm.) Medulla Theologica. Editio 2da. Amstelod. 1628.— The 
same, Editio 4ta [Liber i.] Lond., 1630. — The same, Editio novissima, 
orationibus duabus auctior. Amst., J. Jansson, 1652. 

3 vols. 8° and 12° 

Strength out of Weaknesse ; Or a Glorious Manifestation Of the further 
Progresse of the Gospel Among the Indians in New-England. Held 
forth in Sundry Letters since the last Treatise to that effect, formerly 
set forth by Mr. Henri/ Whitfield, late Pastor of Gilford in New- 
England. Published by the aforesaid Corporation, pp. (12), 40. 

4° London, M. Simmons, &c, 1652. 

The Second issue. The Epistle Dedicatorie is subscribed by 
William Steele, President (of the Corporation). 

Baxter (Richard). Gildas Salvianus ; The Reformed Pastor. With the 
autographs of Thos. Shepard, Thos. Prince (1706J, Sam. Greenwood 
(1707J, Rich. Salter fl742J. and James Gf. Percival. 

8° London, 1656. 

Buxtorfi (J.) Fil. Exercitationes ad Historiam, I. Arcse Foederis, II. 
Ignis Sacri et Coelestis, III. Urim et Thummim, IV. Mannae. etc., old 
calf. 4° Basilece, 1659. 

Autogr. " Cottoni Matheri Liber, 1683." 

Peters (Hugh). A Sermon by Hugh Peters : preached before his Death : 
As it was taken by a faithful hand. Portrait (satirical) of Peters in- 
serted, pp. (4:), 28. Lond., John Best, 1660. 

Leigh (Edw.) A Systeme or Body of Divinity. 2d edition. 

4° fol. London, 1662. 

Autographs of Increase, Cotton, and Samuel Mather; several mar- 
ginal notes by Increase Mather. 

Propositions concerning the subject of Baptism, etc., Whereunto is an- 
next the Answer of the Dissenting Brethren, &c. 

4° n. p. Printed in the Year, 1662. 



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Torrey (Samuel). An Exhortation unto Keformation. Massachusetts 
Election Sermon, May 27, 1674, pp. (8), 44. 

4° Cambridge, Marmaduke Johnson, 1674. 

Autograph, at head of title-page, of "John Cotton ex dono Amici 
Grindalli Rawson." Address To the Reader (6 pp.) by Increase 
Mather. 

Glanvil (J.) Essays on several Important Subjects, good copy, old 
binding. 4° London, 1676. 

The Sixth Essay is against Witchcraft. Scarce. 

Owen (John). An Enquiry into the Original, Nature, etc., of Evangel- 
ical Churches. The First Part ; with an Answer to the Discourse on 
the Unreasonableness of Separation by Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, and 
Vindication of the Non-Conformists from the guilt of Schisme, pp. 
(14), 365. 4° London, 1681. 

[Willarcl (S.)] Covenant Keeping the Way to Blessedness, in several 
sermons ; with a Preface by I. Mather. 

12° [Boston, J. Glen for S. Sewall, 1682.] 

Oakes (Urian), Prcesident of Harvard Colledge. A Seasonable Discourse 
Wherein Sincerity & Delight in the Service of God is earnestly 
pressed upon Professors of Religion. Delivered on a Publick Fast, 
at Cambridge, pp. (6J, 23, 4° Cambridge, Samuel Green, 1682. 

Willard (S.) The Child's Portion : Or the Unseen Glory of the Children 
of God, Together with several other Sermons, pp. (()), 227. 

8° Boston, Samuel Green, 1684. 

Contains The Child's Portion, pp. 144; The Righteous Man's 
Death (Fun. Sermon for Major Tho. Savage), pp. (2), 145-163; Elec- 
tion Sermon, 1682, pp. 163-198; All Plots Against God and his People 
Detected and Defeated, Fast Sermon, Jan. 25, 1682, pp. 199-227. 

Stoddard (Solomon). The Safety of Appearing at the Day of Judgement, 
in the Righteousness of Christ, pp. (8), 352, (2). 

8° Boston, S. Green, for Sam. Phillips, 1687. 

The last leaf contains a list of "Books to be Sold by Samuel Phillips, 
at the West end of the Town-House in Boston." 

Palmer (John). An Impartial Account of the State of New England: or, 
the Late Government there, Vindicated. In Answer to the Declara- 
tion which the Faction set forth when they Overturned that Govern- 
ment. With a Relation of the Horrible Usage they treated the Gov- 
ernour with, and his Council, &c. ; in a Letter to the Clergy there, 
pp. 49. 4° London, for Eduo. Poole, 1690. 

Willard (S.) The Mourners Cordial against Excessive Sorrow, etc., 
pp. (4), 137. 8° Boston, B. Harris & John Allen; 

"very suitable to be given at Funerals," 1691. 

Judgment (The) of Several Eminent Divines of the Congregational 

Way, concerning a Pastor's Power Occasionally to exert Ministerial 

Acts in another Church, besides that which is His Own Particular 

Flock, pp. (2), 13. 8° Boston, Benj. Harris, 1693. 

"Drawn up by Mr. Increase Mather." — Prince. 

Moodey (Joshua), posthumous. The Believers happy change by Dying, 
A Sermon preached on the occasion of the Death of Capt. Thomas 
Daniel Esq., who was interred the day before, November 17th, 1683, 
pp. 32, sm. sq. 8° Boston, B. Green and J. Allen, 1697. 

Lee (Samuel). Contemplations on Mortality. Wherein The Terrors of 
Death are laid open, for a Warning to Sinners; etc., pp. (10J, 149. 

8° Boston, B. Green & J. Allen, for S. Phillips, 1698. 



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Autographs of Jeremiah Dummer and Benjamin Wadsworth (Pres- 
ident of Harvard College). 

Willard (S.) The Man of War. A Sermon preached to the Artillery 
Company at Boston, June 5, 1699, Being the anniversary day for their 
Election, pp. 30. " 8° B. Green & J. Allen, 1699. 

Stubbes (Henry). Conscience the Best Friend upon Earth, pp. (20), 64. 
sm. 12° Boston, Reprinted, B. Green & J. Allen, 1700. 

Boston — Several Rules, Orders, and By-Laws made and agreed upon by 
the Free-Holders and Inhabitants of Boston of the Massachusetts, 
At their Meeting May 12 and Sept. 22, 1701 ; [with Rules and Orders 
adopted at various subsequent dates, to 1727, paged continuously] 
pp. 43. 4° Boston, B. Green & J. Allen, 1702. 

Stoddard (Sol.) The Way for a People to I/ve Lonjr in the Land that 
God Hath given them. [Election] Sermon, 26. of Mav, 1703. pp. (2), 
25. 4° Boston, B. Green & J. Allen, 1703. 

Lawson (Deodat). Christ's Fidelity the only Shield against Satan's 
Malignity. A [Lecture] Sermon at Salem- Village, the 24th of March, 
1692 — a time of Publick Examination of some Suspected for Witch- 
craft. The Second Edition, pp. (12) 120. 

8° Beprinted, London, B. Toolcey, 1704. 

This edition has a special Dedication to Sir Henry and Lady Diana 
Ashurst; and an Appendix (pp. 93-120) containing "Remarkable 
things relating to the Afflicted" — "to the accused" — and"to the Con- 
fessing Witches." 

Boone (Nicholas). Military Discipline. The Compleat Soldier — Added, 
The Military Law of the Province. The Second Edition with Addi- 
tions, pp. (I), 124. 8° Boston, B. Green for Benj. Eliot, 1706. 
The Military Laws have a separate title-page (p. 86.) 

Willard, (S.) The Just Man's Prerogative; A Sermon [Occasioned by 
the Death of] Simeon Stoddard, who was Barbarously Murdered, 
near London, May 14, 1706.— Wadsworth (Benj.) Considerations to 
Prevent Murmuring — A Lecture Sermon [on the same occasion]. 
Two in one vol. 12° Boston, B. Green, 1706. 

Contains MSS. biographical notes [by Samuel G. Drake.] 

Williams (Wra.) The Danger of Not Reforming Known Evils, or, The 
Inexcusableness of a Knowing People Refusing to be Reformed. As 
it was set forth on a clay of Publick Fasting, April 16, 1707, at Hat- 
field, pp. (2), 30. 8° Boston, B. Green, 1707. 
His first published sermon. 

Pierpont (Rev. James). Sundry False Hopes of Heaven, Discovered and 
Decryed. In a Sermon in Boston, 3d. 4 m. 1711. With a Preface by 
the Rd. Dr. [Cotton] Mather, pp. (2), xxiv. 46. 

12° Boston, T. Green, 1712. 

[Kirkpatrick (James)]. An Historical Essay upon the Loyalty of Pres- 
byterians in Gr. Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to 1713. 
In Three Parts, pp. xvi, 564, (10). 4° (Edinburgh) 1713. 

Mayhew (Experience). A Discourse showing that God dealeth with 
Men as with Reasonable Creatures. Sermon at Boston, Nov. 23, 1718. 
With a brief account of the State of the Indians on Martha's Vine- 
yard, & the Small Islands Adjacent, from 1694 to 1720, pp. (2), 34,12. 

8° Boston, B. Green, for 8. Gerrish, 1720. 

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Bacqueville de la Potherie. Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionale, 
plates, 4 vols. 12° Paris, 1722. 

This work is, chiefly, a history of the Indian nations of Canada, par- 
ticularly the Iroquois, Abnakis, Hurons. and Illinois; and of the rela- 
tions between these Indians and the French. Most of the twenty- 
seven plates are illustrative of scenes or peculiarities iu Indian life. — 
Field's Bibliography, No. 66. 

Stoddard (Solomon). Question whether Gocl is not Angry with the 
Country for doing- so little towards the Conversion of the Indians? 
Spoken to, in a Discourse [at] North-Hampton, pp. 22. 

4° Boston, 1723. 

Loring (Bev. Israel) of Sudbury. Two sermons at Rutland, Sept. 8th, 
1723, After the Indians had been there and Kill'd the Rev. Joseph 
Willard, with Two of Mr. Joseph Stevens's Children and Captivated 
other Two, pp. (2), 44. 16° Boston, S. Kneeland, 1724. 

York. Moodey (Samuel). Summary account of the Life and Death of 
Joseph Quasson, Indian; who [was Executed for Murder at York, 
June 29, 1726], wanting pp. 29-36. 16° Boston, for S. Gerrish, 1726. 

The narrative part of this very rare tract is complete. The missing 
signature contains a portion of the author's " Observations and special 
remarks." 

May hew (Experience). Indian Converts : or, Some Account of the Lives 
and Dying Speeches of Christianized Indians of Martha's Vineyard. 
Added, Some Account of the English Ministers who have presided 
over the Indian Work, by Mr. Prince, old paneled calf. 

8° London, for Sam. Gerrish, Boston, 1727. 

On a guard-leaf, in the autograph of a former possessor— whose sig- 
nature is illegible — the inscription : " Ex Dono Amici Integerrimi 
Samuelis Matheri." A.M. V.D.M. Bostoni Nov-Anglise, July 16, 1732, 
Cottoni Mather Filius, Increase Mather Nepos, Amici mei . . . hono- 
randi & eolendi." 

Chauncey (Isaac). Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. Mr. John Wil- 
liams, Pastor of the Church in Decrfield, pp. 32. 8° Boston, 1729. 

A Conference of His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, Esq. ; . . . Governor 
. . of the Massachusetts Bay, etc., with Edewakenk Chief Sachem of 
the Penobscut Tribe, [and others,] at Falmouth, in Casco-Bay, July, 
1732, pp. 23. 4° [Boston, B. Green, 1732.] 

Plymouth Company. (Kennebec Purchase.) A defence of the Remarks 
of the Plymouth Company, on the Plans and Extracts of Deeds pub- 
lished by the Proprietors (as they term themselves) of the Township 
of Brunswick, pp. 50. 4° 1753. 

Hopkins (Samuel). Historical Memoirs Relating to the Housatunnuk 
Indians. 4° Boston, 1753. 

Militia. The Exercise for the Militia of the Province of the Massachu- 
setts-Bay. fol., 1758. 

Observations on Several Acts of Parliament, . and also on the Conduct of 
the Officers of the Customs, since those Acts were passed . . Pub- 
lished by the Merchants of Boston. Edes & Gill, 1769.— State of the 
Importations from Great Britain into the port of Boston, Jan. -Aug., 
1769, &c, pp. 130, Mein & Fleming, 1769. 

Boston. [Adams (Sam.)] Appeal to the World; or, a Vindication of 
the Town of Boston, 8° Boston, 1769. 



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Massacre. A Short Narrative of The horrid Massacre in Boston, perpe- 
trated in the Evening of the Fifth Day of March, 1770, by Soldiers of 
the xxixth Regiment; . . with some Observations on the State of 
Things prior to that Catastrophe, frontispiece (inserted). 

8° Printed by Order of the Town of Boston, 1770. 

Gordon {Rev. Wra.) Plan of a Society for making Provision for 
Widows by Annuities. 8° 1772. 

Mauduit (I.) Short View of the History of the Colony of Massachu- 
setts Bay, with respect to their Charters and Constitution, half mor. 

8° London, 1774. 

Letters of Governor Hutchinson and Lieut. Gov. Oliver, &c, printed at 
Boston, and Remarks thereon; with the Assembly's Address, and the 
Proceedings of the Lords Committee of Council, pp. 126, half morocco. 

8° London, 1774. 

Emmons William. Address in Commemoration of the Boston Massacre. 
Calculated for the Northern but will answer all Southern tastes. 2d 
Edition, pp. 14. n. d. 

In same volume is " Some Strictures upon the Sacred Story of Esther, 
etc." By Oliver Noble, pp. 31. Newburyport, 1775. 

Hanson (Eliz.) An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, late 
of Kachecky in New England: Who, with four of her children and 
Servant-Maid, was taken Captive by the Indians, and carried into 
Canada. ... A New Edition. Taken in substance, from her own 
Mouth by Samuel Bownas. 8° London, 1787. 

[Trumbull (Henry)]. History of the Discovery of America, etc., and of 
. . . Engagements with the Indians . . . By a Citizen of Connecticut, 
two folded plates, pp. 184. 

8° Norwich, for the Author at his Office, 1810. 

Greene (Nathanael). Life and Correspondence, by William Johnson. 2 
vols., portraits, maps, and plans, uncut. 4° Charleston, 1822. 

Captivities. Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson. With an Ap- 
pendix containing the Sermons preached at her Funeral, and that of 
her Mother, etc. Third Edition, enlarged, pp. 178, the first few leaves 
worn, and water stained. Windsor, Vt., 1814. — Good fetch'd out of Evil, 
in Three Short Essays. I. A Pastoral Letter of Mr. John Williams, 
of Deerfield; now detain'd a captive in Canada, etc. II. The conduct 
and constancy of the New English Captives, when strongly tempted 
unto Popish Idolatries, etc. III. An account of memorable deliver- 
ances, etc., pp. 34. n. p. 1784. — Narrative of Remarkable occurrences in 
the Life of Johu Blatchford, of Cape- Ann, Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, Containing an Account of his treatment and sufferings while 
a prisoner in the late War, etc Second Edition, pp. 22. New London, 
Timothy Green, 1794. — Williams (Stepheu W.) Biographical 
Memoir of the Rev. John Williams [the "Redeemed Captive"]; 
with a Sketch of Ancient Deerfield; the Journal of the Rev. 
Dr. Stephen Williams of Longmeadow, during his Captivity, etc., pp. 
127. Greenfield, Mass., 1837. — Narrative of the Captivity etc. of Mrs. 
Mary Rowlandson, pp. 122. Boston, 1856.— Memoirs of Rev. Joseph 
Eastburn. of the Mariner's Church, Philadelphia. By Ashbel Green, 
D.D. [With an Appendix, containing] A Faithful Narrative of the 
many Dangers &c. of Robert Eastburn during his Captivity among the 
Indians, &c. [repr. from Philadelphia edition of 1758]. Portrait, pp. 
vi, 208, Phila. 1828. Six volumes and tracts, bound in one vol. 12° 



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The History of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, from 1750 untilJune, 
1774. Edited by the Rev. John Hutchinson. 3 vols. 

8° London, J. Murray, 1828. 

Bouchette (Jos.) The British Dominions in North America : or, a Topo- 
graphical and Statistical Description of Lower and Upper Canada, 
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, etc., S3 plates, 2 vols. 4° London, 1831. 

The Witches ; a Tale of New-England, curious woodcuts, pp. 72. 

18° Bath (Me.), B. L. Underhill, 1837. 

New Haven. Yale College. Tracts. 17 in one vol. 

New Haven (except two), 1763-95. 

Swett (S.) History of the Battle of Bunker Hill. 2d edition with a 
plan, 1826. Swett (S.) Notes to his Sketch, 1825. Precis hisi 
torique sur la BataiJle, pour servir d'explication du Tableau peint 
par le Col. Trumbull, London, 1786. Bradford (A.) History of the 
Battle, 1825. 5 in one vol. Report to Mass. Legislature on Monu- 
ment to Col. Prescott, 1852. 8° 

Phinney (E.) History of the Battle at Lexington, 1825. Ripley (E.) 
History of the Fight at Concord, Concord, 1827. Everett (E.) Hist. 
Address at Lexington, Apr. 19, 1835, 2d ed., Charlestown, 1835. King 
(D. P.) Address at Dan vers, commemor. of Seven Young Men slain 
in the Battle of Lexington, Salem, 1835. Emmons ( W.) Address 
in Commem. of Lexington Battle, 1826. Everett (E.) Oration at 
Concord, April 19, 1825. Celebration at Concord, Apr. 19, 1850, with 
Oration by R. Rantoul, Jun., pp. 135. Boston, 1850. 7 in one vol. 8° 

Bartlett (J. R.) History of the Destruction of the Gaspee, in Narra- 
gansett Bay, June 10, 1772, Providence, 1861. Dring (T.) Recollec- 
tions of the Jersey Prison-Ship; edited by H. B. Dawson, f25 copies 
printed) two portraits, Morrisania, 1865. 2 in 1 vol., royal 8° 

Lescarbot (Marc). Histoire de la Nouvelle-France; Suivie des Muses 
de la Nouvelle-France. Nouvelle Edition, publiee par E. Tross, avec 
quatre cartes geographiques, 3 vols.. 

8° Paris, Libraire Tross, 1866. 
Literal reprint of the edition of 1612, with facsimiles of the maps. 

Drake (S. G.) Annals of Witchcraft in New England and elsewhere in 
the U. States, pp. 306, portrait of Hon. John Wentworth. 

4° Boston, 1869. 

No. viii. of Woodward's Historical Series; edition of 250 copies. 

Whitmore (W. H.) Increase Mather, the Agent of Massachusetts Col- 
ony in England, for the Concession of a Charter. Reprinted from the 
"Andros Tracts." pp. 24, uncut. sm. 4° Boston, 1869. 

Harvard College Tracts. 46 in 3 vols. 8° 

Plymouth Tracts. 59 in 3 vols. 8° 

American Revolution— Tracts. 1768-1774. 

American Indians —Tracts. Wars and Captivities. 



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WORKS OF THE MATHERS. 

Mather (Richard). A Defence of the Answer and Arguments of the 
Synod met at Boston in the year 1G62, concerning the Subject of 
Baptism and Consociation of Churches against the Reply made thereto 
by the Reverend John Davenport — Together with An Answer [by the 
Rev. Jonathan Mitchell] to the Apologetical Preface set before that 
Essay. By some of the Elders who were members of that Synod, 
pp. (2), 46, 102. 4° Cambridge. 

On the margin of the title-page, i* written, in the Autograph of 
Richard Mather: "For the Keverd Mr. Shepard;" also. '"Thomas 
Shepanl's Booke, ye gift of ye Revd. Author [Mr. Richard] Mather, 
Teacher of the Church in Dorchester;" and ''Ben. Wads worth's, 1717." 

[Mather (Increase? and Nathanael)]. A Disputation Concerning Church 
Members and their Children, in Answer to XXI. Questions : Wherein 
the State of Such Children when Adults, Together with their Duty 
towards the Church, And the Churches Duty towards them is Dis- 
cussed. By an Assembly of Divines meeting at Boston in New 
England, June 4th, 1657. pp. 8, 31. 

4° London, J. Hayes, for Samuel Thomson, 1659. 

This very rare tract was published by the agency of Nathaniel 
and Increase Mather. The former wrote the prefatory Epistle "To 
the Reader." 

INCREASE MATHER. 

The Mystery of Israel's Salvation Explained and Applyed, Or, A Dis- 
course concerning the general Conversion of the Israelitish Nation. 
By Increase Mather M. A., Teacher of a Church in Boston in New 
England, pp. (46 j, 181, (10;, 

8° n. p. [London?] Printed in the year 1669. 

A Second title-page, placed after the Preface, has the Imprint: Lon- 
don, Printed for John Allen in Wentworth Street, near Bell 
Lane, 1669. 

This is the first of Increase Mather's acknowledged publications. 

Collation: Epistle to the Reader, by John Davenport, 1667 (11 
pp.); To the Reader, by W. G. (4 pp.); To the Reader, by W. H[ooke] 
(14 pp.); The Author's Preface (14 pp.); Text, pp. 181; Table, &c, 
(9 pp.) 

Wo to Drunkards. Two Sermons testifying against the Sin of Drunk- 
enness. # 4° Cambridge, Marmaduke Johnson, 1673. 

Pray for the Rising Generation, or a Sermon Wherein Godly Parents are 
Encouraged, to Pray and Believe for their Children, Preached [on a 
Fast in Boston, July 3, 1678], pp. 23. 

4° Cambridge, Samuel Green, 1678. 

Returning unto God, the Great Concernment of a Covenant People. 
Or a Sermon Preached to the second Church in Boston, March 17, 
1679-80, [on their Renewal of their Covenant.]^. (6), 18, (2). 

4° John Foster, 1680. 
Title leaf (2 pp.); To the Second Church (4 pp.); Sermon, pp. 19; 
The Covenant (2 pp.) At the end, a manuscript note, by Thomas 
Prince; "7 have the 1st rough draught of this Covenant, drawn 
by Mr. Increase Mather in his own Hand-writing. T. Prince." 



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Heaven's Alarm to the World. Or a Sermon, wherein it is shewed, 
That Fearful Sights and Signs in Heaven, are the Presages of great 
Calamities at hand. pp. 6, 17. 4° John Foster, 1681. 

An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences : especially in 
New England, pp. (22 J, 372 (&). sm. 8°. Printed at Boston in New- 
England, and are to be sold by George Calvert, at the Sign of the 
Half-Moon', in Paul's Church-yard, London, 1684. 

The Mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several Sermons. 
pp. (2), 6, 212. Boston, 8° 1686. 

A Sermon Occasioned by the Execution of a Man found Guilty of Mur- 
der. Preached at Boston in New England. March 11, 1685-6. To- 
gether with the Confession, Last Expressions and Solemn Warning of 
that Murderer, &c, pp. (ij, 44. 

8° Printed for Joseph Brunning, 1686. 

The First Edition. Sibley (No. 39) notes only the Second edi- 
tion of 1687. Bound in the same volume, are the following tracts : 

Yearwood (Randolph). The Penitent Murderer. An Exact Narra- 
tive of the Lite and Death of Nathaniel Butler [who murdered] John 
Knight, with the several Confessions held with the said Butler in 
Newgate, &c. London, T. New comb, 1657. 

Mather (Cotton). The Call of the Gospel Applyed to all Men in gen- 
eral, and unto a Condemned Malefactor in particular, in A Sermon 
preached on the 7th d. of the 1st m. 1686, at the liequest and in the 
hearing of a man [James Morgan] under a ju^t Sentence of Death for 
the horrid Sin of Murder. Boston, B. P\ierce], 1686. 

[This is the First work named in Samuel Mather's list of his Father's 
publications.] 

Moody (Joshua). An Exhortation to a Condemned Malefactor, De- 
livered March 7th, 1685-6. Boston, [B. Pierce], 1686. 

Four in 1 vol. 

A Sermon Occasioned by the Execution of a Man found Guilty of Mur- 
der, etc., pp. 32. London, for John Dunton, 1691. [Appended to] The 
Wonders of Free Grace, Or, A Compleat History of the Remarkable 
Penitents that have been executed at Tyburn and elsewhere for these 
last thirty years, pp. (8J, 180. sm. 8° London, 1690. 

* 9 

De Successu Evangelii apud Indos Occidentales, in Nova-Anglia; Epis- 
tola. Ad CI. Virum D. Johannein Leusdenum A Crescentio Mathero, 
pp. 16. 8° Ultrajecti, apud Wilh. Broedeleth, 1699. 

Reprinted from the (first) London edition ("Typis J. G." 1688) and 
"Successu Evangelii apud Indos Orientales aucta." 

Ichabod. Or, A Discourse, shewing what Cause there is to Fear that 
the Glory of the Lord, is departing from New-England. Delivered in 
Two Sermons, pp. 92. 12° Timothy Green, 1702. 

Four Sermons, viz., I. The Glorious Throne. II. The Excellency of a 
Public Spirit. III. The Righteous Man a Blessing. IV. The Morn- 
ing Star. pp. (2), 97-122, 84. 12° Printed for N. Boone, 1708. 
"The Glorious Throne," which has a separate title-page, was printed 
in 1702, appended to -'Ichabod." The other three sermons were pub- 
lished together, in 1702. This copy has the autograph of Rev. Thomas 
Foxcroft, "Don. Autoris venerabilis, Jan. 8, 1722-3." 

A Discourse concerning Faith and Fervency in Prayer Several Ser- 
mons with a True Account of the late Wonderful and Astonishing 



! 



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Success of the Gospel in Ceilon, Amboina, and Malabar, pp. (2), xix, 
(1), 112, (6), wants a leaf of preface. 

12° B. Green for Samuel Gerrish, 1710. 

A Discourse concerning the Death of the Righteous. Occasioned by 
the Death of the Honourable Mr. John Foster, Esqr., and of his Pious 
Consort, Mrs. Abigail Foster,^. (2), 29. 8° B. Green, 1711. 

Now or Never is the Time for Men to make Sure of their Eternal Salva- 
tion. Several Sermons, ^p. f4J, 113. 12° T, Green, 1713. 

A Sermon concerning Obedience & [Resignation] to the Will of God. 
Occasional by the Death of that Pious Gentlewoman Mrs. Mari[ah 
Mather,] late consort of Increase Mather, D.D. on the Lord's Day, 
April 4, 1714, pp. (2), vi, 40. 12° T. Green, 1714. 

A Discourse concerning the Existence and Omniscience of God, The 
Substance of several Sermons, pp. (Q), 86, (\). 12° [1716.] 

The Preface is dated, Oct. 10, 1716. 

Two Discourses shewing I. That the Lord's Ears are open to the Pray- 
ers of the Righteous. II. The Dignity & Duty of Aged Servants of 
the Lord. Also, A Preface in which the Congregational Discipline of 
the Churches in New-England is Vindicated, with the Author's Dying 
Testimony there-unto, pp. (2), x, 141, (\), old binding. 

12° B. Green, for D. Henchman, 1716. 

The Preface (pp. ix.) is dated July 26. 1716. ''Nine and Fifty Years are 
Lapsed, since 1 began to Preach the Gospel, in my Youth, in lands afar 
off. Since God brought me to Boston, Five and Fifty Years are within a 
few Vv'teks expired. What Changes have I lived to see!" 

The Duty of Parents to Pray for their Children. A Sermon, preached 
May 19, 1703. [on a Day of] Prayer with Fasting for the Rising Gen- 
eration. The Second Impression, pp. vi, 40. — Mather (Cotton) The 
Duty of Children Whose Parents have Pray'd for them. Or, Early 
and Real Godliness Urged; Especially upon such as are descended 
from Godly Ancestors. A Sermon [on the same occasion as the pre- 
ceding.] The Second Impression, pp. 41-99. Two in one volume, con- 
tinuous paging. 12° J. Allen, for John Edwards, 1719. 

Awakening Soul-Saving Truths, Plainly Delivered in several Sermons 
[on the Called and the Chosen], pp. (2), it, 100, (\). 

12° S. Kneeland, for B. Gray and J. Edwards, 1720. 

Sermon on the Beatitudes. The Second Edition, pp. (6), 211. 

Beprinted, Dublin, 1721. 

With it are bound : Boyse (J.) Sermon on the Accession of George 
I. Dublin, 1715; and Bukkitt (W .) Discourses of Infant Bap- 
tism. Lond. 1712. 

A Dying Legacy of a Minister to his Dearly Beloved People, Being the 
Three Last Sermons preached by him. (Preface, dated June 21st, 
1722,) pp. (6J, 90. sm. 12° 1722. 

The Original Rights of Mankind Freely to Subdue and Improve the 
Earth. Asserted and Maintained. By I. [or J.] M. pp. (6j, 22. uncut 

8° Boston, for the Author, 1722. 

Attributed to I. Mather, which may not be correct. If by him it 
is the last work independently published by him. 



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COTTON MATHER. 

Small Offers towards the Service of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness. 
Four Discourses accommodated unto the Designs of Practical Godli- 
ness. Wants pp. 23-4 and 45-6 (two leaves) otherwise perfect. 

8° B. Pierce, 1689. 

Several Sermons concerning Walking with God, and that In the Dayes 
of Youth, pp. (2), 86. 8° London, J. Astwood for John Dunton, 1689. 

Three Sermons. The last is entitled, " The Duty and Interest of 
Youth : or, The Thought of an Elder, on the Death of a Younger 
Brother, Uttered Oct. 28, 1688 "(a funeral sermon for Nathanael Mather). 

Late Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions, 
Clearly Manifesting, Not only that there are Witches but that Good 
Men (as well as others) may possibly have their Lives shortned 
by such evil Instruments of Satan. The Second Impression. Recom- 
mended by the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter in London, and by 
the Ministers of Boston and Charlestown in New-England, pp. (22), 
144. 8° London, Tho. Parkhurst, 1691. 

One of the Earliest and Rarest American works relating to the 
subject. 

Batteries upon the Kingdom of the Devil. Seasonable Discourses 
upon Some Common, but Woful, Instances, wherein Men Gratifie 
the Grand Enemy of their Salvation. By Mr. Cotton Mather, 
Author of The Late Memorable Providences relating to Witch- 
crafts and Possessions, and of Early Piety exemplified, pp. (16,) 192. 

8° London, Nath. Hiller, 1695. 

An Epistle Dedicatory, " To my Worthy Nephew, Mr. Cotton 
Mather," and an address •* To the Reader." by Nath. Mather, — the for- 
mer, dated, London, Dec. 15, 1693. The first sermon in the volume, 
'* Sacred Exorcisms: Or. The Case and (Jure of Persons Possessed by 
the Devil," alludes (p. 21) to cases " we have seen," of "bodily moles- 
tations by Evil Spirits." 

Benedictus. Good men described, with some Character and History of 
Mr. Thomas Bridge. 1715. Bound with The Best Ornaments of 
Youth, etc. 

The Thoughts of a Dying Man. A Faithful Report of Matters uttered 
by many, in the Last Minutes of their Lives, etc., pp. 47, (1), four 
pages (17-20) in admirable fac-simile, by Burt. 

12° B. Green & J. Allen, for J. Wheeler, 1697. 

A Token for the Children of New-England. Or, Some Examples of 
Children in whom the Fear of God was Remarkably Budding, before 
they Dyed, In Several Parts of New-England . . . Added as Supple- 
ment, unto the excellent Janewayes Token for Children : Upon the Re- 
printing of it, in this Countrey, pp. 36, [Appended to Janeway's 
Token, pp. (12), 132]. 12° Timo. Green, for B. Eliot, 1700. 

An Advice to the Churches of the Faithful ; briefly reporting, The Present 
State of the Church, throughout the World, pp. 16. 

8° B. Green and J. Allen, 1702. 

A Tree Planted by the Rivers of Water. Or, An Essay, upon the God- 
ly and Glorious Improvements, which Baptised Christians are to make 
of their Sacred Baptism, pp., (2), 69. 

12° Barth. Green, for Samuel Phillips, 1704, 



17 

Work Within-Doors. An Essay to- Assist the Serious in the Grand Ex- 
ercise of Conversing with themselves, and Communing with their own 
Hearts, pi?. 40. 12° T. Green, 1709. 

The running title is : "A Christian Conversing with himself." 

The Sailours Companion and Counsellour: An Offer of Considerations 
for the Tribe of Zebulun ; Awakening the Mariner to Think and to Do 
those things that may render his Voyage Prosperous, pp. (2), 62. 

8° B. Green, for S. Gerrish, 1709. 

A Golden Curb, For the Mouth, which with an Headstrong Folly, Rushes 
into the Sins of Profane Swearing and Cursing, pp. 12. 

12° John Allen, 1709. 

Orphanotrophium. Or, Orphans Well-provided for. An Essay on the 
Care taken in the Divine Providence for Children when their Parents 
forsake them. A Sermon, on a Day of Prayer, kept with a Religious 
Family, [28cl. lm. 1711,] whose Honourable parents [John and Abigail 
Foster] were lately taken from them, pp. (4), 68. 8° B. Green, 1711. 

Winter Piety . . A Sermon at Boston-Lecture, 27d. 10m. 1711, pp. (2), 
33. \2° B. Green, 1712. 

Seasonable Thoughts upon Mortality. A Sermon occasioned by the 
Raging of a Mortal Sickness in the Colony of Connecticut, and the 
many Deaths of our Brethren there. Delivered at Boston-Lecture, 
24d. 11m. 1711-12, pp. (2), 26, (2). 12° T. Green, 1712. 

Reason Satisfied: and Faith Established. The Resurrection of a glo- 
rious Jesus Demonstrated, pp. 47. 12° J. Allen, for JST. Boone, 1712. 

Grata Brevitas. An Essay made in a Few Words, to demonstrate that a 
Few Words may have Much comprised in them, pp. 20. 

8° B. Green, for S. Gerrish, 1712. 

Wholesome Words. A Visit of Advice, Given unto Families that are 
Visited with Sickness; by a Pastoral Letter, etc. pp. (2), 24. 

12° Printed for D. Henchman, 1713. 
In S. Mather's list, the title is given under 1702. 

A Flying Roll, Brought forth, to Enter into the House and Hand of the 
Thief. The Crime and the Doom of the Thief declared. The vari- 
ous Wayes of Theft Detected and Exposed . . A Sermon preached 
at Boston, lid. 11m. 1712, pp. (2), 34. 8° B. Green, 1713. 

The Saviour with his Rainbow. A Discourse concerning the Covenant 
which God will remember in the Times of Danger passing over his 
Church. (Dedication by Samuel Mather.) pp. 23. 8° London, 1714. 

The Religion of the Cross. A Brief Essay upon the Cross, . . Occa- 
sioned by . . the Death of [the author's wife] Mrs. Elizabeth Mather, 
pp. (4), 47, (1). 12° John Allen, 1714. 

A New Year Well-begun. An Essay offered on A New-Years-Day ; to 
provide a Good Work for such a Day, and Advise, How a Good Year 
may Certainly follow the Day, pp. (4), 29, 1. 

16° New London, T. Green, 1719. 

Dedicated to John Winthrop, Esq. 

A Glorious Espousal. A Brief Essay to Illustrate and Prosecute the 
Marriage, wherein Our Great Saviour offers to Espouse unto Himself 
the Children of Men: And there upon to Recommend . . a good Car- 



18 

riage in the Married Life. An Essay . . Seasonably to be presented, 
where a Marriage is upon a Celebration, pp. (2), 46. 

12° S. Kneeland, for B. Gray, 1719. 

The World Alarm'd. A Surprizing Relation of a new Burning-Island 
lately raised out of the Sea near Tercera; . . and a Brief History of 
other Iiinivoraous Mountains . . In a Letter to au Honourable Fellow 
of the Royal Society at London, From a Member of the same Society, 
pp. 16, (2). _ 8° B. Green, 1721. 

Bethiah. The Glory Which Adorns the Daughters of God. And the 
Piety, Wherewith Zion wishes to see her Daughters Glorious, pp. 60. 

12° J. Franklin, for 8. Gerrish, 1722. 

Sober Sentiments. In an Essay upon the Vain Presumption of Living 
and Thriving in the World. . . Produced by the Premature and much 
lamented Death of Mr. Joshua Lamb. With an Appendix by another 
Hand [Rev. Thomas Walter],^. 37. Sin. 8° T. Fleet, 1722. 

Juga Jncunda. A Brief Essay to obtain from Young People, an Early 
and Hearty Submission to the Yoke of their Saviour, and his Religion. 
With a Relation of . . . the Dying Hours of Mrs. Abiel Goodwin. 
The Second Edition, pp. (4), 36. 8° For D. Henchman, 1728. 

This copy has the leaf before the title, with a half-title: "Dr. 
Mather's Remarkables on the Peaceful and Joyful Death of Mrs. Abiel 
Goodwin;" which was the title of the first edition, printed in 1727. 

Boanerges. A Short Essay to preserve and Strengthen the Good Im- 
pressions Produced by Earthquakes . . Adclress'd unto the Whole 
People of New-England, who have been Terrified with the Late Earth- 
quakes, etc., pp., 52. 8° [1727]. 

Student and Preacher, entituled, Manuductio ad Ministerium ; or Direc- 
tions for a Candidate of the Ministry ; republished by John Ryland. 

8° London, 1781. 

SAMUEL MATHER. 

The Figures or Types of the Old Testament . . Explained and Improved 
in sundry Sermons. Second edition, pp. vii, (1), 540, (16). 

4° London, 1705. 
The first edition was printed in 1683, n. p. [Dublin?] 

The Self-Justiciary Convicted. Or, A Discourse Concerning the Diffi- 
culty and Necessity of Renouncing our own Righteousness, etc., pp. 
(2), 27, (1), 94. 8° Boston, B, Green, for N. Porter at Windsor, 1707. 

'* A Testimony to the Order of the Gospel, in the Churches of New- 
England,'* by John Higginson and Wm. Hubbard, follows the Epistle 
Dedicatory, pp. 19-27. 

A Compendious History of the Rise and Progress of the Reformation of 
the Church here in England, from Popish Darkness and Superstition. 
Together with au Account of Nonconformity . . . Also, King Charles 
IPs Declaration about Religion, October, 1660, etc. By a Gentleman, 
pp. (16), 148. • 8° London, 1715. 

"N.B. A great part of this book is (almost Verbatim) a Transcript 
of Dr. Cotton Mather's Eleutheria or History of the Reformation & 
Nonconformity, Printed at London, anno 1698; with some Extracts from 
Dr. Calamy's Abridgement. And by the Stile of the Preface, as well 
as upon other considerations, I guess that this Compendious History was 
put forth by Mr. Samuel Mather, in England, Brother to the Doctor." — 
MS. note by the Bev. Thomas Foxcroft. 



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A Vindication of the Holy Bible, Wherein the Arguments for, and Ob- 
jections against the Divine Original, Purity, and Integrity of the 
Scripture, are Proposed and Considered, pp. (4), iv, 405, old calf, gilt. 

8° London, 1723. 

Dedicated to the Rev. Edm. Calaniy , D.D. Dr. Samuel Mather's copy 
with his marginal notes. 

A Testimony from the Scripture against Idolatry & Superstition, etc., 
pp. (6), 88. 8° u. d. [Boston, 1725.] 

" Printed in 1725, according to a MS. note," in the Prince Library 
copy. This copy has, at the top of the title-page, the inscription, '* Do- 
mini Dom. Kev'di Joh. W[ise?] 172[ ]," the last numeral having been 
cut off in trimming. 

Vita B. Augusti Hermanni Franckii, cui adjecta est, Narratio Rerum 
Memorabilium in Ecclesiis Evangelicis per Germaniam, pp. 31, 11, 
autograph of Benjamin Cohnan. 8° Bostoni, 1733. 

Mather (Nathanael) of Dublin and London, son of Richard; (Harv. 
Coll. 1647J. The Righteousness of God through Faith upon All with- 
out Difference who believe. In Two Sermons on Romans 3. 22. pp. 
(4), 76. 2d Edition. 4° London, 1718. 





PUBLICATIONS OF THE MATHERS 

IN THE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY PREVIOUS 
TO THE ADDITIONS MADE FROM THE BRINLEY SALE. 



In preparing this list, the titles have been compared with 
the originals, except in a few cases where, in the copies 
owned by the society, the title page was missing. Free use 
has been made -of the large list of Mather publications itf 
Salmi's valuable "Dictionary of Books Relating to America," 
and of the catalogue of the first part of the Brinley Library, 
prepared by J. Hammond Trumbull, LL.D. 

The titles are given in chronological order, beginning with 
the % works of Richard Mather of Dorchester, who was born 
in England, A. D. 1596, and died in Dorchester, Mass., 
A. D. 1669. Those of other members of the family are 
arranged in the following order: — (1), Samuel of Dublin, 
son of Richard, 1626-1671 ; (2), Nathanael of Dublin and 
London, son of Richard, 1630-1697; (3), Eleazer of North- 
ampton, son of Richard, 1637-1669 ; (4), Increase of Bos- 
ton, son of Richard, 1639-1723 ; (5), Cotton of Boston, son 
of Increase, 1663-1728 ; (6), Azariah of Saybrook, son of 
Samuel, of Windsor, Conn. ; (7), Samuel of Boston, son of 
Cotton, 1706-1785; (8), Moses of Middlesex (now Darien), 
Conn., Yale College, 1739. 



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RICHARD MATHER. 

Church-Government and Church-Covenant Discvssed, In an Answer of 
the Elders of the severall Churches in New England To two and 
thirty Questions, sent over to them by divers Ministers in England, 
to declare their judgments therein. Together with an Apologie of 
the said Elders in New-England for Church-Covenant, sent over in 
Answer to Master Bernard in the year 1639. As also in an Answer to 
nine Positions about Church-Government. And now published for 
the satisfaction of all who desire resolution in those points, pp. 
(4), 84, (2), 78. 

4° London, Printed by B. 0. and G. D. for Benjamin Allen, Anno 
Dom., 1643. 

In one of the two^copies of this work in the Society's library the fol- 
lowing in the hand-writing of Increase Mather appears on a fly leaf: 
" My father wrote ye Answer to ye 32 Qs Increase Mather." The 
- "Apologie" has a separate title page and paging, and is printed by 
T. P. and M. S. for Benjamin Allen. On the title page of the Society's 
copy, Mr. Richard Mather is given as the author, in the hand-writing 
of Increase Mather. The " Answer of the Elders" begins with page 
49, and in one copy the author is stated, in the hand-writing of 
Increase Mather to be Mr. Richard Mather, and in the other copy also in 
the same hand-writing, to be John Davenport. The Society also have a 
manuscript trauscript of the " Answer to the Nine Positions " by John 
Ferniside, dated 1639. There is nothing in the manuscript itself to 
indicate that it was not original with Ferniside, the woxd" transcript" 
being in another hand, apparently that of Increase Mather. 

The Workes of Several Authors upon That Way of Church-Government 
commonly called (INDEPENDENT) .... Unto which is added 
the practice of priinative Times for preserving Truth, and suppress- 
ing Heresie and Schisme Licensed and Printed According to 

Order. 4° London, Printed by M.'S.for H. Overton, 1646. 

The first work is " A Modest & Brotherly Answer To Mr. 
Charles Herle his Book, against the Independency of Churches." 
By Richard Mather Teacher of the Church at Dorhcester; and 
William Thompson Pastor of the Church at. Braiutree. pp. (4), 
58, 1644. 

Then follow, The Keyes of the Kingdom of Heaven, etc , by John 
Cotton, pp. 59, 1644. An Answer to W. R. his Narration, etc., by 
Thomas Welde, pp. (6), 68. A Reply to a Confutation of some 
grounds for Infants Baptisme, etc., by Geo. Phillips, pp. (12), 4, 
154 — 1645. Satisfaction Concerning Mixt Communions, etc., etc. "Im- 
primatur John Bachiler," pp. (2), 14. 1643. A Vindication of Churches, 
etc., etc., by Henry Burton, pp. (4), 72, 1644. Independency accused, 
etc., etc., signed J. P., pp. (4), 34. 1645. A Defence of Suudry Positions, 
etc., etc., by Samuel Eaton, Teacher, and Timothy Taylor, Pastor, pp. 
(8), 130, 4, 1645. The Defence of Sundry Positions & Scriptures 
Justified, etc., by the same authors, pp. (4), 46, 1646. Uniformity 
Examined, etc., by Wil. Dell, pp. 8, 1646. Flagellum Flagelli, by J. S., 
pp. (1), (2), 19, 1, 1645. The Ancient Bounds, etc., pp. l-(6), 78. A 
Vindication of Mr. Burroughes, etc., by Jer. Burroughes, pp. 1-30, 
mdcxlvi. A Paraenetick or Humble Addresse, etc. The second im- 




A Farewell Exhortation to the Church and People of Dorchester in 
New-England, pp. 4-27. 4° Cambridge, 1657. 

Journal of Richard Mather, 1635. His Life and Death, 1670. In Collec- 
tions of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society. Number 
Three; pp. 108. 12° Boston, 1850. 



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SAMUEL MATHER (of Dublin). 

The Figures or Types of the Old Testament, By which Christ and the 
Heavenly Things of the Gospel were Preached and Shadowed to the 
People of God of Old ; Explain'd and Improv'd in Sundry Sermons. 
pp. (vii), 540, 12. 4° London, 1705. 

NATHANAEL MATHER (of Dublin and London). 

A Sermon Wherein is Shewed That it is the Duty and should be the 
Care of Believers on Christ, to Live in the Constant Exercise of 
Grace. By Mr. Nathanael Mather, Pastor of a Church at Dublin in 
Ireland, pp. (2), 28, (2). 

Sm. 8° Printed at Boston in New- England By B. P., for Joseph 
Browning, Stationer, Anno, 1684. 

" The first work independently published by him."— Sabin. 

A Discussion=of the Lawfulness of a Pastor's Acting as an Officer In 
Other Churches besides that which He is specially called to take the 
Oversight of. By the late Reverend Mr. Nathanael Mather, pp. (2), 
x, 83, (\). The Second Edition. 

12° Boston: Re-printed and sold by Thomas Fleet in Pudding 
Lane, 1730. 

There is also a manuscript copy of this with the date, " Printed for 
Nathl. Hiller, London, 1698." This is probably a copy from the first 
edition. 

ELEAZER MATHER. 

A Serious Exhortation to the Present and Succeeding Generation in 
New England, Earnestly calling upon all to Endeavour that the Lord's 
Gracious Presence may be continued with Posterity, being the Sub- 
stance of the Last Sermons preached By Mr. Eleazer Mather, late 
Pastor of the Church in Northampton in New-England, pp. (8), 31. 

Cambridge, Printed by S. G-. and M. J., 1671. 

The second edition, pp. 4, 31. 4° Boston, Printed by John Foster, 
1678. The address " To the Church and Inhabitants of Northampton," 
(pp. 5), in the first edition and the Letter " To the Reader" pp. 2, in 
the second are by Increase Mather. 

INCREASE MATHER. 

A Discourse Concerning the Subject of Baptisme Wherein the present 
Controversies, that are agitated in the New English Churches are 
from Scripture and Reason modestly enquired into, By Increase 
Mather, Teacher of a Church in Boston in New-England, pp. (4), 76. 

4° Cambridge, Printed by Samuel Green, 1675. 

The First Principles of New-England, Concerning The Subject of 
Baptisme & Communion of Churches. Collected partly out of the 
Printed Books, but chiefly out of the Original Manuscripts of the 
First and chief Fathers in the New- English - Churches; With the 
Judgment of Sundry Learned Divines of the Congregational Way in 
England, Concerning the said Questions. Published for the Benefit of 
those who are of the Rising Generation in New-England. By 
Increase Mather, Teacher of a Church in Boston in New-England. 
pp. (8;, 76. 4° Cambridge, Printed by Samuel Green, 1675. 



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The Wicked mans Portion. Or A Sermon (Preached at the Lecture in 
Boston in New England the 18th day of the I Moneth 1674, when two 
men were executed, who had murthered their Master.) Wherein is 
shewed That excesse in wickedness doth bring - untimely Death. By 
Increase Mather, Teacher of a Church of Christ, pp. (4), 25. 

4° Boston, Printed by John Foster, 1675. 

" This appears to have been the first work printed in Boston. The 
preface is dated '15. of 2. Moneth [April 15]. 1075.' ' The Times of 
Men,' has the same dale of imprint, but the preface is dated k 9th of 4th 
Moneth [June 9th] 1075,' and the accident which occasioned it occurred 
May Uh, 1675. There is another issue in which two lines are added to 
the errata, on the last page (25), and au error in a marginal note on the 
same page is corrected." 

A Brief History of the VVarr With the Indians in New-England. (From 
June 24, 1675. when the first English-man was murdered by the 
Indians, to August 12, 1676. when Philip alias Metacomet, the princi- 
pal Author and Beginner of the Warr, was slain.) Wherein the 
Grounds, Beginning, and Progress of the Warr, is summarily ex- 
pressed. Together with a serious Exhortation to the Inhabitants of 
that Land. pp. (6), 51, (8). 

4° Boston, Printed and Sold by John Foster over against the Sign of 
the Dove, 1676. 

A Call from Heaven To the Present and' Succeeding Generations. Or A 
Discourse Wherein is shewed, i. That the Children of Godly Parents 
are under special Advantages and Encouragements to seek the Lord. 
ii. The exceeding danger of Apostasie. Delivered in a Sermon, 
Preached in the Audience of the General Assembly of the Massachu- 
setts Colony, at Boston in New- England, May 23. 1677. being the day 
of Election there, hi. That Young Men ought to Remember God 
their Creator, pp. (6J, 114, 

Sin. 8° Boston : Printed by John Foster, 1679. 

Also The Second Impression. 8° pp. (8), 198. Boston: Printed 
by B. P. for I. B running . 1685. 

Pray for the Rising Generation, Or A Sermon Wherein Godly Parents 
are Encouraged to Pray and Believe for their Children, Preached the 
third Day of the fifth Moneth, 1678, which Day was set apart by the 
second Church in Boston in New-England, humbly to seek unto God 
by Fasting and Prayer, for a Spirit of Converting Grace, to be poured 
out upon the Children and Rising Generation in New England. By 
Increase Mather, Teacher of that Church. The Second Impression. 
pp. 29. 

Sm 8° Boston : Printed by John Foster, 1679. 

Also The Third Impression Printed by R. P. 1689. 

The 1st Edition of this was bought at the Brinley Sale. 

The Divine Right of Infant Baptisme Asserted and Proved from Scrip- 
ture And Antiquity. By Increase Mather, Teacher of a Church of 
Christ in Boston in New-England.] pp (8 J, 27. 

4° Boston : Printed by John Foster in the Year 1680. 

Heaven's Alarm to the World Or a Sermon, Wherein is Showed, That 
Fearful Sights and Signs in Heaven, are the Presages of Great Calam- 
ities at hand. Preached at the Lecture of Boston in New England; 
Jan'y 20, 1680. The Latter Sign Discoursed of in a Sermon Preached 
at the Lecture of Boston, in New England, August 31, 1682. Wherein 



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is Shewed, that the Voice of God in Signal Providences, especially 
when Repeated and Iterated, ought to be Hearkened unto. Second 
Impression, pp. (8), 38, 32. 

8° Boston: Printed for Samuel Sewall, 1682. 

Practical Truths Tending to Promote the Power of Godliness : Wherein 
Several Important Duties, are Urged, and the Evil of divers common 
Sins, is Evinced: Delivered in Sundry Sermons, pp. (14), 220. 

Sm. 8° Boston in New-England. Printed by Samuel Green upon 
Assignment of Samuel Sewall, 1682. 

Thomas quotes a second edition with the same imprint. 

A Sermon Wherein is shewed that the Church of God is sometimes a 
Subject of Great Persecution; Preached on a Publick Fast at Boston 
in New-England : Occasioned by the Tidings of a great Persecution 
Kaised against the Protestants in France, pp. (6), 24. 

4° Boston, in New-England : Printed for Samuel Sewall, in the 
Tear 1682. 

KonrjToypatbia. Or a Discourse Concerning Comets; Wherein the Nature 
of Blazing Stars is Enquired into: With an Historical Account 
of all the Comets which have appeared from the Beginning of 
the World unto this present Year, m.dc.lxxxiii. Expressing the 
Place in the Heavens, where they were seen, Their Motion, Forms, 
Duration ; and the Remarkable Events which have followed in the 
World, so far as they have been by Learned Men Observed. As also 
two Sermons, Occasioned by the late Blazing Stars. By Increase 
Mather, Teacher of a Church at Boston in New-England, pp. (\2), 
143. 

Sm. 8° Boston in New-England. Printed by S[amueV] G[reen~\ for 
S[amuel'] S\_ewaW], And sold by J. Brunning At the corner ot the 
Prison Lane next the Town- House, ■ 1683. 

An Address " To the Reader," p. 4, is signed " John Sherman." 
The "two Sermons" are, "Heaven's Alarm. Second Impression, 
1682," which has a separate title-page, and " The Latter Sign," which 
has continuous signatures with •' Heaven's Alarm." 

The Doctrine of Divine Providence opened and Applyed. Also Sundry 
Sermons on Several Other Subjects, pp. (1 ), 148. 

8° Boston: Printed by Bichard Pierce, 1684. 

A Sermon (Preached at the Lecture in Boston in New-England the 18th 
of the i. Moneth 1674. When two men were Executed, who had 
Murthered their Master). Wherein is Shewed That Excess in Wick- 
edness doth bring Untimely Death. The Second Impression. By In- 
crease Mather, Teacher of a Church of Christ, pp. (2), 38. 

Sm. 8°, Printed by B. P{ierce\, for J. Brunning in Boston, 1685. 

For first Edition, see page 23, " The Wicked Man's Portion." 1675. 

The Mystery of Christ opened and applyed. In several Sermons, Con- 
cerning the Person, Office, aud Glory of Jesus Christ. By Increase 
Mather, Teacher of a Church at Boston in N. England, pp. (2) 6, 
212, (i). 

Sm. 8° Boston : Printed at Boston in New England Anno 1686. 

The Greatest Sinners Exhorted and Encouraged To Come to Christ and 
that Now Without Delaying. Also, The Exceeding Danger of Men's 
Deferring their Repentance. Together with a Discourse about The 
Day of Judgement. And on Several other Subjects, pp. (4J, 146. 

Sm. 8° Boston : Joseph Browning, 1686. 



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A Sermon Occasioned by the Execution of ( James Morgan ) a Man 
found Guilty of Murder: Preached at Boston, in New England, March 
11th, 168| [sic]. (Together with the Confession, Last Expressions, 
and Solemn Warning of that Murderer; Especially to Young Men, to 
beware of those Sins which brought him to his Miserable End.) The 
Second Edition, pp. (±), 12-1. 

8° Boston : Printed by R[ichard~] P[ierce~\. Sold by J. Brunning. 

Anno . 1687. 

Pages 37-82 of the second edition, whose title varies somewhat from 
the first, contain '* The Call of the Gospel," with a title-page, and " An 
Exhortation," with a title-page. 

A Testimony Against several Prophane and Superstitious Customs, Now 
Practised by some in New-England, The Evil whereof is evinced from 
the Holy Scriptures, aud from the Writings both of Ancient and Mod- 
ern Divines, pp. (8), 41. 

Sm. 8° London: Printed in the Year 1687. 

Thomas quotes an edition '• Boston. Reprinted from the London 
Edition." 1088. 

A Brief Discourse Concerning the unlawfulness of the Common Prayer 
Worship, and Of Laying the Hand on, and Kissing the Booke in 
Swearing. By a Reverend and Learned Divine. The Second Impres- 
sion, pp. (2), 43. 

Sm. 8° Beprintcd at London in the Year 1689. 

The Present State of New England impartially considered in a Letter 
to the Clergy, pp. 44. 4° London, 1689. 

The Revolution in New England Justified and the People there Vindi- 
cated from the Aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer, in his 
Pretended Answer to the Declaration, Published by the Inhabitants 
of Boston, and the Country adjacent, on the day when they secured 
their late Oppressors^ who acted by an Illegal and Arbitrary Commis- 
sion from the Late King James, pp. (Q), 48. 

4° Printed for Joseph Brunning at Boston in New-England, 1691. 

" To the Reader,'* is signed by " E. R." and " S. S." which it is said 
represent Edward Rawson and Samuel Sewall. 

There is another edition of this work in the Library with the same 
title, and, " To which is added, A Narrative of the Proceedings of Sir 
Edmond Androsse and his Accomplices, who also acted by an Illegal 
and Arbitrary Commission from the late King James, during his 
Government in New England." By several Gentlemen who were of his 
Council. 8°. pp. 59. Printed in the Year 1692. Boston: Reprinted 
and sold by Isaiah Thomas. . . . mdcc,lxxxiii. 

A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches. With 
the Observations Of a Person who was upon the Place several Days 
when the suspected Witches were first taken into Examination. To 
which is added Cases of Conscience Concerning Witchcrafts and Evil 
Spirits Personating men. Written at the Request of the Ministers of 
New-England. By Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge. 
Licensed and Entred according to Order, pp. 10, f4), 40, (i). 

4° London: Printed for J. Dunton at the Raven in the Poul- 
trey, 1693. 

The last four pages contain a list of " Books now in the Press, aud 
going to it. Printed for John Dunton, at the Raven in Poultry." 

4 



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The Great Blessing, of Primitive Counsellours. Discoursed in a Ser- 
mon, Preached in the Audience of the Governour, Council, and Repre- 
sentatives, of the Province of the Massachusets-Bay, in New-England. 
May 31st, 1693. Being the Day for the Election of Counsellours, in 
that Province, pp. 23. 

4 Boston : Printed by Benjamin Harris, 1693. 

The Answer Of Several Ministers in and near Boston, To that Case of 
Conscience, Whether it is Lawful for a Man to Mary his Wives own 
Sister ? pp. 8, (1). 

Sm. 8° Boston in iV. E., Printed and Sold by Bartholomew Green, 

1695. 

The "Answer " is signed by Increase Mather, Charles Morton, James 
Allen, Samuel Willard, James Sherman, John Danforth, Cotton Mather, 
Nehemiah Walter; and is against such marriages. It is followed by an 
obituary notice of Mrs. Judith Hull, which may be a separate publica- 
tion, and is probably by Cotton Mather. 

Angelographia, or A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Power of 
the Holy Angels, and the Great Benefit which the True Fearers of 
God Receive by their Ministry: Delivered in several Sermons: To 
which is added, A Sermon concerning the Sin and Misery of the 
Fallen Angels : Also a Disquisition concerning Angelical-Apparitions. 
By Increase Mather, President of Harvard Colledge, in Cambridge, 
and Preacher of the Gospel at Boston in New-England, pp. (16), 132, 
44. Sm. 8° Boston in N. E., Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for 
Samuel Phillips, 1696. 

David Serving His Generation. Or, A Sermon Shewing What is to be 
done in order to our so Serving our Generation, as that when we Dy, 
we shall Enter into a Blessed Rest. Occasioned by the Death, of the 
Reverend Mr. John Baily, who deceased at Boston in New-England, 
December 12th, 1697. pp. 39. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, 1698. 

Masukkenukeeg Matcheseaenvog Wequetoog kah Wuttooanatoog Uppe- 
vaonont Christoh kah ne Yeuyeu Teanuk Wonk, ahche nunnukquodt 
missinninnuk ukquohquenaount wutaiuskoianatamooonganoo. Kah 
Keketookaonk papaume Wussittumwae kesukodtum. Kah papaume 
nawhutch onkatogeh Wunnomwayeuongash Nashpe Increase Mather. 
Kukkootomwehteanenuh ut oomoeuwehkomonganit ut Bostonut, ut 
New England. Yeush kukkookootomwehteaongash qushkinnumunash 
en Indiane unnontoowaonganit nashpe S. D[anforth]. pp. 164. 

Sm. 8° Bostonut, Printuoop Nashpe Bartholomew Green kah John 
Allen, 1698. 

Five sermons by Increase Mather, translated into the Indian lan- 
guage by Rev. Samuel Danforth. " The first Indian book known to have 
been printed after the removal of the press to Boston." — J. H. Trum- 
bull in A. A. S. Proceedings, No. 61. 

The Order of the Gospel, Professed and Practised by the Churches of 
Christ in New-England, Justified, by the Scripture, and by the Writ- 
ings of many Learned men, both Ancient and Modern Divines; In 
Answer to several Questions, relating to Church Discipline, pp. 
143, (1). 

12° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for Benjamin Eliot, 

1700. 

More commonly cited by its running title, " The Order of the 
Churches in N. England Vindicated." 



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The Blessed Hope, And the Glorious Appearing of the Great God our 
Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & Applied, In several Sermons. By 
Increase Mather, President of Harvard College in Cambridge And 
Preacher of the Gospel at Boston in N. E. pp. 142. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by Timothy Green, for N Boone, 1701. 

A Discourse Proving that the Christian Religion, Is the only True 
Religion: Wherein, The necessity of Divine Revelation is Evinced, 
in several Sermons, pp. (4), 96. Boston, Timothy Green, 1702. 

The Excellency of a Publick Spirit Discoursed : In a Sermon, Preached 
in the Audience of the General Assembly of the Province of the 
Massachusetts Bay in New-England May 27, 1702. Being the day 
for Election of Counsellors in that Province. By Increase Mather. 
[Followed by:] The Righteous Man A Blessing: Or, Seasonable 
Truths Encouraging unto Faith and Prayer in this Day of Doubtful 
Expectation. In Two Sermons. [Andj The Morning Star. pp. 
(12), 84. 

12° Boston, in New-England, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for 
Nicholas Boone, 1702. 

Some Remarks On a late Sermon, Preached at Boston in New-England, 
by George Keith, m. a. Shewing That his pretended Good Rules in 
Divinity, are not built on the foundation of the Apostles & Prophets. 
pp. (2) ,"36. 16° Boston, Printed for Nicholas Boone, 1702. 

Practical Truth's, Tending to Promote Holliness in the Hearts & 
Lives of Christians, Delivered in Several Sermons, pp. 102, (4). 

12° Boston in N. E., Printed by Barth. Green for Ben). Eliot, 1704. 

The Voice of God, in Stormy Winds. Considered, in Two Sermons, 
Occasioned by the Dreadful and Unparallel'd Storm, in the European 
Nations. Novernb. 27th. 1703. [Followed by:] A Brief Discourse 
Concerning the Prayse Due to God, for His Mercy, in giving Snow 
like Wool. pp. 95. 

12° Boston in N E., Printed by T. Green for Nicholas Buttolph, 1704. 

"In the first tract, the address 'To the Reader' contains a brief 
notice of the attack on Deerfield and the capture of Mr. Williams and 
his family. The discourse makes frequent allusions to recent events: 
the great snow of Dec. 1703, and the loss of a Boston ship, in the harbor 
(p. 8). the storm of April 7th and 8th, 170+, which wrecked the 
French privateer 'designing to do us hurt' (p. 28), the terrible 
' windy tempest' at Cambridge, in 1682, (pp. 63-4), etc." — Sabin. 

A Letter. About the Present State of Christianity, among the Christ- 
ianized Indians of New-England. Written, To the Honourable, Sir 
William Ashurst, Goveruour of the Corporation, for Propagating the 
Gospel among the Indians, in New-England, and Parts Adjacent, in 
America, pp. 15. 

Sm. 8° Boston in N. E., Printed by Timothy Green, 1705. 
Signed "Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, Nehemiah Walter." 

Meditations on the Glory of the Lord Jesus Christ : Delivered in 
several Sermons. By Increase Mather, pp. (2), viii, 165, (1). 

16° Boston in New-England, Printed by Bartholomew Green, for 
Benj. Eliot, 1705. 

" In the Epistle Dedicatory, to his Congregation, April 2, 1705, the 
author says: ' You are to look upon these as the Last Words, which 
I shall ever, by the Press, Speak and Dedicatate (sic) unto you.' 
Nevertheless, he lived to publish more than thirty works after this 
(besides prefaces, dedications, etc.) Some copies have the imprint, 
Boston in New-England : Printed by Bartholomew Green for 
Nicholas Buttolph, at the Corner of Gutteridges Coffee-House. h 



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A Discourse Concerning Earthquakes. Occasioned by the Earthquakes 
which were in New England, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 
June 16, and in Conecticot-Colony, June 22, 1705. Also, Two Ser- 
mons, shewing, That Sin is the Greatest Evil; And, That to Redeem 
Time is the Greatest Wisdom, pp. 131. 

12° Boston, Printed by Timothy Green, for Benjamin Eliot, 1706. 

A Discourse Concerning the Maintenance Due to those That Preach the 

Gospel; In Which That Question Whether Titles are by the Divine 

LAW the Ministers Due, is Considered, and the Negative Proved. 

pp. 60 (1). 12° : Boston, 1706. 

Also, An Edition, " Reprinted at London, 1709." 8°, pp. (4), 32. 

A Plea for the Ministers Of the Gospel, Offered to the Consideration of 
the People of New-England. Bv a Friend to the Churches, pp. 29. 

Sm. 8° Boston Printed by B. Green, 1706. 

Meditations on Death. Delivered in Several Sermons. Wherein is 
Shewed : I. That some True Believers on Christ are afraid of Death, 
but that they have no Just Cause to be so. n. That Good Men as 
well as others may be taken out of the World by a Sudden Death. 
in. That not Earth but Heaven is the Christians Home. pp. V, 171, 
C5). 

8° Boston in N. E. Printed by Timothy Green, 1707. 

A Dissertation, wherein The Strange Doctrine Lately Published in a 
Sermon, The Tendency of which, is, to Encourage Unsanctified Per- 
sons (while such), to Approach the Holy Table of the Lord, is Exam- 
ined and Confuted. With an Appendix, Shewing what Scripture 
Grouud there is to Hope, that Within a very few years there will be a 
Glorious Reformation of the Church throughout the World, pp. 
(U), 135. 

The preface is historical. It is in answer to Solomon Stoddard, who 
replied in " An Appeal to the Learned." 

A Dissertation Concerning the Future Conversion of The Jewish Nation. 
Answering the Objections of the Reverend and Learned Mr. Baxter, 
Dr. Lightfoot, and others. With an Enquiry into the First Resurrec- 
tion, pp. (±), 35. (1). 

4° London: Printed by B. Too key for Nath. Eiller, mdccix. 

A Discourse Concerning the Grace of Courage, Wherein the Nature, 
Beneficialness, and Necessity of that Vertue for all Christians, is 
described. Delivered in a Sermon Preached at Boston in New- 
England [at the Artillery Election]. June 5th, 1710. pp. (\), 44. 

12° Boston : Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Phillips, 1710. 
An Earnest Exhortation to the Children of New-England, To Exalt the 
God of their Fathers. Delivered in a Sermon, pp. (4r), 39. 

12° Boston, in JV. E. : Benj. Eliot, 1711. 

Meditations on the Glory of the Heavenly World. I. On the Happiness 
of the Souls of Believers, at the Instant of their Separation from their 
Bodies, n. On the Glory of the Bodies of God's Children, in the 
Resurrection World, when they shall be as the Angels of Heaven, 
in. On the Glory of both Soul and Body in the Heaven of Heavens, 
after the Day of Judgment, to all Eternity, pp. (2), v, (\), 276, (\). 
Sm. 8° Boston in N. E. Printed : Sold by Benj. Eliot, 1711. 

" These Sermons were Pluckt out of the Burning; when Seven Book- 
sellers Shops in Boston were Consumed in those Flames, which on th6 
Second of this Instant October, made a dismal Desolation in the midst 
of this Great Town."— Preface, pp. ii, Hi. 



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Burnings Bewailed : In a Sermon, Occasioned by the Lamentable 
Fire Which was in Boston, Octob. 2, 1711. In which the Sins which 
Provoke the Lord to Kindle Fires, are Enquired into. The Second 
Edition, pp. (\), 36. 

Sin. 8° Boston in V. E. : Printed and Sold by Timothy Green, 1712. 

Meditations On the Sanctiflcation of the Lord's Day : And On the Judge- 
ments which attend the Profanation of it. To which is Added, Sea- 
sonable Meditations both for Winter and Summer, pp. (2), x, 71, (3), 
iv, 51. 

12° Boston: Printed by T. G., for S. Gerrish, 1712. 

The "Seasonable Meditations " have a separate title-page, and were 
printed by John Allen. 

Soul-Saving Gospel Truths. Deliver'd in several Sermons : Wherein 
is shew'd. I. The Unreasonableness of those Excuses which Men 
make for their Delaying to come to the Lord Jesus Christ for Salva- 
tion, ii. That for Men to Despair of the Forgiveness of their Sins 
because they have been Great, is a great Evil. in. That every Man 
in the World is going into Eternity. Second Edition, pp. iv, 135. 

24° Boston: 1712. 

Wo to Drunkards. Two Sermons Testifying against the Sin of Drunk- 
enness : Wherein the Wofulness of that Evil, and the Misery of all 
that are addicted to it, is Discovered from the Word of God. By 
Increase Mather, d.d. The Second Edition, pp. (\), 58, (\). 

Sm. 8° Boston: Printed by Timothy Green, 1712. 

Now or Never Is The Time for Men to make Sure of their Eternal 
Salvation. Several Sermons, In which is Declared ; i. That Now is 
the Day of Salvation, n. That it is Wisdom, for Men to Consider 
their Latter End. in. That Impenitent Sinners will be found Guilty 
of their Own Destruction, pp. (2), 2, 113. 8° Boston, 1713. 

A copy of this was also received from the Brinley library. 

A Disquisition Concerning Ecclesiastical Councils. Proving, that not 
only Pastors, But Brethren delegated by the Churches, have equally a 
Right to a decisive Vote in such Assemblies. To which is added, 
Proposals concerning Consociation of Churches, Agreed upon bj' a 
Synod, which Convened at Boston, in New-England. With a Pre- 
face, containing a further Vindication of the Congregational Disci- 
pline, pp. (2), xx, 47, (1). 12° Boston, Printed for N. Boone, 1716. 
Also a reprint. Boston, 1870. 8°, pp. 36. 

Practical Truths, Plainly Delivered : Wherein is Showed, 1. That true 
Believers on Jesus Christ, shall as certainly enjoy Everlasting Life in 
Heaven, as if they were there already. 2. That there is a blessed 
marriage between Jesus Christ the Son of God, & the true Believer. 
3. That Men are Infinitely concerned, not only to hear the Voice of 
Christ, but that they do it, To-Day. 4. The Work of the Ministry, 
described, in an Ordination Sermon, pp. (4), 138. 12° Boston, 1718. 
" The Work of the Ministry" has an independent title page. 

A Sermon Wherein is Shewed, 1. That the Ministers of the Gospel 
need, and ought to desire the Prayers of the Lord's People for them. 
2. That the People of God ought to Pray for his Ministers. Preached 
at Koxbury, October 29, 1718. When Mr. Thomas Walter Was 
Ordained a Pastor in that Church, by his Grand-Father, Increase 
Mather, d. d. pp. (2), ii, 35, (1). 

8° Boston, Printed by S. Kneeland, for J. Edwards, 1718. 



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Sermons wherein Those Eight Characters of the Blessed Commonly 
called the Beatitudes, Are Opened & Applied in Fifteen Discourses. 
To which is added, A Sermon concerning Assurance of the Love of 

Christ, pp. (2), iv, 298. 

8° Boston, N. E., Printed by B. Green, for Daniel Henchman, 1718. 

Five Sermons on Several Subjects. 1. A Birth Day Sermon, Preached 
on the Day When the Author Attained to the Eightieth Year of his 
Age. 2. A Dying Testimony to the Sovereign Grace of God in the 
Salvation of His Elect, Containing Three Sermons. 3. Believers 
encouraged to Pray. pp. v. 148. 12° Boston, 1719. 

Awakening Soul-Saving Truths Plainly Delivered In Several Sermons 
in which is shewed, 1. That Many are Called, who are not effectually 
Called. 2. That Men may be of the Visible Church, and yet not be 
of the Lords Church. 3. That the Chosen of God are comparatively 
Few. pp. (2), ii, 100, (1). 

12° Boston, Printed by S. Kneeland for B. Gray and J. Edwards, 

1720. 

A Seasonable Testimony To Good Order in the Churches Of the Faith- 
ful. Particularly Declaring the Usefulness & Necessity of Councils 
in Order to Preserving Peace and Truth in the Churches. By 
Increase Mather, d.d. With the Concurrence of Other Ministers of 
the Gospel in Boston, pp. (4), 20. 

Sua. 8° Boston, V. E., Printed by B. Green for D. Henchman, 1720. 

Advice to the Children of Godly Ancestors. Given July 9, 1721. By 
Increase Mather. And taken in Short- Hand, by one of the Hearers. 
pp. 16. 12° Boston, Printed by 8. Kneeland, 1721. 

This " Advice," given in his eighty-third year, " without using 
any notes," is in " A Course ot Sermons," the preface to which, is also 
by Increase Mather. 

Some Important Truths About Conversion, Delivered in Sundry Ser- 
mons, By Increase Mather. With a Preface by Dr. Owen. The 
Second Edition, pp. (2), xxii, 260, (1;. 

12° London, Printed, 1674. Boston, in N. IE., Be-Printed by John 
Allen, for John Edwards, 1721. 

A Call to the Tempted. A Sermon on the horrid Crime of Self Murder, 
Preached on a Remarkable Occasion, by the Memorable Dr. Increase 
Mather. And now Published form his Notes, for a Charitable Stop 
to Suicides, pp. 4, 11, 17. Sm. 8° Boston, 1723-4. 

Ichabod. Or, A Discourse, Shewing what Causes there is to Fear that 
the Glory Of the Lord, is Departing from New England. Delivered 
in Two Sermons. Second edition, pp. 88. 

12° Boston, Printed for N. Boone, 1729. 
The first Edition was received from the Brinley Library. 

Remarkable Providences Illustrative of the Earlier Days of American 
Colonization. By Increase Mather. With an Introductory Preface, 
by George Offer, pp. xix., (18), 262. Portrait. 

8° London : John Bussell Smith, 1856. 

The History of King Philip's War. By the Rev. Increase Mather, d.d. 
Also, a History of the Same War, by the Rev. Cotton Mather, d.d. 
To which is added An Introduction and Notes, By Samuel G. Drake. 
pp. 281. 2 Portraits, Pedigree of the Mather family, folded sheet. . 

4° Boston : Printed for the Editor, By J. Munsell, 1862. 



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"This is a new edition of 'A Brief History,' (Page 23.) Two 
hundred and sixty-one copies printed, of which eleven are on large 
paper. The editor has marred the completeness of this edition by re- 
producing the abridged text of Cotton Mather's ' Troubles . . . had with 
the Indian Salvages,' from Rook vn. of his ' Magnalia,' blended with 
the material of the other work. Pages 227-264 consist of narratives, etc., 
now first printed." 

Early History of New England ; being a Relation of Hostile Passages 
between the Indians and European Voyagers and First Settlers : and 
a full Narrative of Hostilities, to the Close of the War with the 
Pequots, in the year 1637 ; Also a Detailed account of the Origin of 
the War with King Philip. By Increase Mather. With an Introduc- 
tion and Notes, By Samuel G. Drake, pp. 319. 

4° Boston : Printed for the Editor, 1864. 

COTTON MATHER. 

Military Duties, Recommended to an Artillery Company ; at their Elec- 
tion of Officers, in Charlestown, 13. d. 7. m. 1686. By Cotton Mather, 
Pastor of a Church in Boston, pp. (8), 78, (2). 

Sm. 8° Boston in New England. Printed by Bicliard Pierce : And 
are to be sold by Joseph Brunning, at his Shop at the Corner of 
Prison Lane near the Exchange, ■ 1687. 

Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts And Possessions. A 
Faithful Account of many Wonderful and Surprising Things, that 
have befallen several Bewitched and Possessed Persons in New- 
England. Particularly, A Narrative of the Marvellous Trouble and 
Releef [sic], Experienced by a Pious Family in Boston, very lately 
and sadly molested with Evil Spirits. Whereunto is added, A Dis- 
course delivered unto a Congregation in Boston, on the Occasion of 
that Illustrious Providence. As also A Discourse delivered unto the 
same Congregation : on the occasion of an horrible Self-Murder 
Committed in the Town. With an Appendix, in vindication of a 
Chapter in a late Book of Remarkable Providences, from the Calum- 
nies of a Quaker at Pensilvania. Written By Cotton Mather, Minis- 
ter of the Gospel. And Recommended by the Ministers of Boston 
and Charleston, pp. (10J, 75, 21, 40, (2), 14. 

Sm. 8° Printed at Boston in N. England by B. P. 1680. Sold by 
Joseph Brunning, at his Shop at the Comer of the Prison-Lane next 
to the Exchange, 1689. 

The first of the two appended discourses is " On the Power and 
Malice of the Devils;" the seeond is "A Discourse on Witchcraft." 
The Appendix (lacking in Society's copy) (pp. 14) contains a reply to 
George Keith's "Churches in New-England brought to the Test," etc. 

Souldiers Counselled and Comforted. A Discourse Delivered unto 
some part of the Forces Engaged in the Just War of New-England 
Against the Northern and Eastern Indians. Sept. 1, 1689. By Cotton 
Mather, Minister of the Gospel in Boston, pp. (10J, 38. Sm. 8° 
Boston, 2V. E. Printed by Samuel Green, 1689. 

A Companion for Communicants. Discourses Upon The Nature, the 
Design, and the Subject of the Lords Supper; With Devout Methods 
of Preparing for and Approaching to that Blessed Ordinance, pp. (8), 
167, (\). 

Sm. 8° Printed at Boston by Samuel Green for Benjamin 
Harris, 1690. 



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The Principles of the Protestant Religion Maintained, And Churches o f 
New-England, in the Profession and Exercise thereof Defended, 
Against all the Calumnies of one George Keith, a Quaker, in a book 
lately Published at Pensiivania, to undermine them both. By the 
Ministers of the Gospel in Boston, pp. (10j, 156. 

Sm. 8° Boston, in New-England, Printed by Richard Pierce, mdcxc. 

The preface is signed "James Allen, Joshuah Moodey, Samuel 
Willard, Cotton Mather." 

The Serviceable Man. A Discourse Made unto the General Court of 
the Massachusetts Colony, New England, At the Anniversary Election 
28d. 3m, 1690. pp. f4), 64. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by Samuel Green for Joseph Brunning, 1690. 

The Way to Prosperity. A Sermon Preached to the Honourable Con- 
vention Of the Governour, Council, and Representatives of the Massa- 
chuset-Colony in New-England; on May 23, 1689. Bv Cotton Mather. 
pp. (7), 26 [i. e. 36], 5, (1). 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by Joseph Brunning, Obadiah Gill and 
James Woode. mdcxc. 

Fair Weather. Or Considerations to Dispel the Clouds, & Allay the 
Storms of Discontent, in a Discourse which with an Entertaining 
Variety, both of Argument and History, layes open, the Nature and 
Evil of that Pernicious Vice, and offers divers Antidotes against it. 
Whereto there is prefixed a Catalogue of Sins against all the Com- 
mandments, pp. (2), 93. 

12° Boston : Printed by B. Green and John Allen, for Benjamin 
Harris, 1691. 

Appended (pp. 83-92) is "A Narrative of a Very Tragieal Accident, 
which happened while the foregoing Treatise was in the Press," — the 
assault on York, by the Eastern Indians : with an Epitaph on Rev. 
Shubael Dummer who was killed. 

The Life and Death Of The Renown'd Mr. John Eliot, Who was the 
First Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America. With an 
Account of the Wonderful Success which the Gospel has had amongst 
the Heathen in that part of the World : And of the many strange 
Customes of the Pagan Indians, In New England. The Second Edi- 
tion carefully corrected, pp. (6), 138. 

Sm. 8° London, Printed for John Dunton, m dc xci. 
Autograph of Samuel Mather. 

Little Flocks Guarded against Grievous Wolves. An Address Unto 
those Parts of New-England which are most Exposed unto Assaults, 
from the Modern Teachers of the misled Quakers. (In a letter, 
Which impartially Discovers the manifold Hairesies and Blasphemies, 
and the Strong Delusions of even the most Refined Quakerism ; And 
thereupon Demonstrates the Truth of those Principles and Asser- 
tions, which are most opposite thereunto.) With just Reflections 
upon the extream Ignorance and Wickedness, of George Keith, Who 
is the Seducer that now most Ravines upon the Churches in this Wil- 
derness, pp. (2), 110. 

8° Boston: Printed by Benjamin Harris & John Allen, 1691. 

The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion, in America. The Life of the 
Renowned John Eliot; A Person justly Famous in the Church of 
God, Not only as an Eminent Christian, and an Excellent Minister, 
among the English, But also, As a Memorable Evangelist among the 
Indians, of New-England; With some Account concerning the late 



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and Strange Success of the Gospel, in those parts of the World, 
which for many Ages have lain Buried in Pagan Ignorance. Written 
by Cotton Mather, pp. (8), 182. 

8° Boston : Printed by Benjamin Harris, and John Allen, for Joseph 
Brunning, 1691. 

Blessed Unions. An Union With the Son of God, by Faith, And, an 
Union In the Church of God by Love, Importunately Pressed; in a 
Discourse Which makes Divers Offers, for those Unions; Together 
with A Copy of those Articles, whereupon a most Happy Union, has 
been lately made between those two Eminent Parties in England, 
which have now Changed the names of Presbyterians and Congrega- 
tionals for that of United Brethren, pp. (10), 86, 12. 

24° Boston : Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen, 1692. 

The "Articles" were also printed in the "Magnalia." v. 58-61, for 
Samuel Phillips. 

A Midnight Cry. An Essay for our Awakening out of a Sinful Sleep. 
A Discourse given on a Day of Prayer, kept by the North-Church in 
Boston, pp. 72. 

12° Boston: Printed by John Allen, for Sam. Phillips, 1692. 

"I have ordered a Small Impression. So that perhaps I may say 
of this Book, as the Philosopher did of his, Tis Published, but 
Scarce made Publick." — Preface. 

Unum Necessarium. Awakenings for the Uuregenerate ; or the Nature 
and Necessity of Regeneration. Handled in a Discourse designed for 
the service of any that may be thereby assisted in the Grand Concern 
of Conversion unto God ; but especially the Rising Generation. With 
an Addition of some other Sermons relating to that Important Sub- 
ject, pp. vi., 154:. 

8° Boston, Printed by B. H. for Duncan Campbell, 1693. 

Winter Meditations, Directions How to employ the Liesure [sic] of 
the Winter For the Glory of God. Accompanied with Reflections, as 
well Historical, as Theological, not only upon the Circumstances of 
the Winter, But also, upon the Notable Works of God, Both in, 
Creation, and Providence: Especially those, which more immediately 
Concern every Particular Man, in the whole course of his Life : And 
upon the Religious works, wherewith every Man should acknowledge 
God, in and from the Accidents of the Winter. With a Preface of 
the Reverend, Mr. John Higginson. pp. fl6), 82. 

8° Boston, Printed by Benj. Harris, • 1693. 

Early Religion, Urged in a Sermon, Upon The Duties Wherein, And the 
Reasons Wherefore, Young People, Should Become Religious, Whereto 
are Added, The Extracts of several Papers, Written by several Per- 
sons, who here Dying in their Youth, left behind them those Admoni- 
tions for the Young Survivers, with Brief Memoirs relating to the 
Exemplary Lives of some such, that have gone from hence to their 
Everlasting Rest. pp. (2), 117, (i). 

8° Boston, Printed by B. H, for Michael Perry, 1694. 

Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion. Or The Character and Happiness 
of a Vertuous [sic'] Woman : A Discourse, pp. (12), 144. 

12° Cambridge, Printed by S. G. & B. G., for Samuel Phillips, 
1691, London, Printed for Thos. Parkhurst, 1694. 

Thomas in his " History of Printing" mentions an edition of 1682. 
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The Short History of New England. A Recapitulation of Wonderfull 
Passages Which have Occurred, First in the Protections, and then in 
the Afflictions of New England. With a Representation of Certain 
Matters calling for the Singular Attention of that Country. Made at 
Boston Lecture, in the Audience of the Great and General Assembly 
of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay. June 7, 1694. pp. 67. 

12° Boston, Printed by B. Green for 8. Phillips, 1694. 

Brontologia Sacra : the Voice of the Glorious God in the Thunder : 
Explained and Applied In a Sermon uttered by a Minister of the 
Gospel in a Lecture unto an Assembly of Christians abroad, at the 
very same time when the Thunder was by the Permission and Provi- 
dence of God falling upon his own House at home. Whereto are 
added some Reflections formed on the Lords Day following by the 
Voices of Thunders, upon the great things which the great God is 
now a doing in the World. A Discourse useful for all Men at all 
times, but especially intended for an Entertainment in the Hours of 
Thunder, pp. (4), 38. 16° London, Printed by John Ashwood, 1695. 

Johannes in Eremo. Memoirs, Relating to the Lives, of the Ever- 
Memorable, Mr. John Cotton, Who Dyed, 23, d. 10, m. 1652. Mr. 
John Norton, Who Dyed, 5. d. 2. m. 663. Mr. John Wilson, Who 
Dyed, 7. d. 6. m. 1667. Mr. John Davenport, Who Dyed, 15. d. 1. m. 
1670. Reverend and Renowned Ministers of -the Gospel. All, in the 
more Immediate Service of One Church, in Boston ; and Mr. Thomas 
Hooker, Who Dyed, 7. d. 5. m. 1647, Pastor of the Church at Hart- 
ford, New England. Written by Cotton Mather, pp. 32, 80, 39, 46, 30, 
45, (2). Sm. 8° Boston, Michael Perry, 1695. 

*• To the Reader," 10 pp., by Increase Mather. After the Introduction, 
is the Advertisement of the author's projected " Church History of New 
England " (the " Magnalia"), with »' A Schseme of the Whole Work." (pp. 
28-32). 

Piscator Evangelicus. Or, The Life of Mr. Thomas Hooker, The 
Renowned, Pastor of Hartford Church, and Pillar of Connecticut 
Colony, in New England essay 'd by Cotton Mather, pp. 45, (2). 

8° Boston, Printed in the year 1695. 

The last two pages have " A Catalogue of some other Books, all 
by this Author," comprising thirty-four titles. 

Memoria Wilsoniana. Or, Some Dues Unto The Memory of the Truly 
Reverend & Renowned Mr. John Wilson, The First Pastor of Boston : 
Who Expired August 7. 1667. Aged 79. Paid by Cotton Mather, pp. 
(2), 46. 

Sm. 8° Printed for and Sold by Michael Perry, in Boston, in N. E. 1695. 
Reprinted in •* Johannes in Eremo." 

The Christian Thank-Offering. A Brief Discourse Made on a Solemn 
Thanksgiving, kept in a Private Meeting of Christians, on the Occa- 
sion of some Deliverance, pp. 32. 

8° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for Michael Perry, 1696. 

A versified paraphrase of the 103d Psalm, by Mather, is prefixed. 
Things for a Distress'd People to think upon. Offered in the Sermon to 
the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at 
the Anniversary Election, May 27, 1696. By Cotton Mather, pp. (2), 
84. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for Duncan 
Campbel. 1696. 



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Ecclesiastes. The Life of the Reverend & Excellent, Jonathan Mitchel; 
A Pastor of the Church, and A Glory of the Colledge, in Cambridge, 
New-England. Written by Cotton Mather, pp. Ill, (32). 

Sm. 8° Massachuset, Printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 1697. 

Dedicatory Epistle by Increase Mather. At the end of the sermon 
are two elegies, in verse, one by Cotton Mather, the other, with an 
" Epitaphium,'' signed " F. D." [Francis Drake]. 

Eleutheria : or, An Idea of the Reformation In England : and A History 
of Non-Conformity in and since that Reformation. With Predictions 
of a more glorious Reformation and Revolution at hand. Written in 
the year 1696. Mostly compiled and maintain'd from unexceptionable 
Writings of Conformable Divines in the Church of England. To 
which is added, The Conformists Reasons for joining with the Non- 
conformists in Divine Worship. By another Hand. pp. 4, 135. 

8° London, Printed for J. B. and sold by Sam. Phillips, Bookseller 
at Boston, in New-England, 1698. 

With autograph of Samuel Mather. 

La Fe del Christiano : En Veyntequatro Articulos de la Institucion de 
Christo. Embiada A Los Espanoles, Por C. Mathero, Sieno del 
Senor Jesu Christo. pp. 16. Sm. 8° Boston, 1699. 

A Family Well-Ordered. Or An Essay To Render Parents and Children 
Happy in one another. Handling two very Important Cases. I. 
What are the Duties to be done by Pious Parents, for the promoting of 
Piety in their Children, n. What are the Duties that must be paid 
by Children to their Parents, that they may obtain the Blessings of 
the Dutiful, pp. 79, 5. 

12° Boston, Printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 

1699. 

At the end is " An Address Ad Fratres in Eremo," of five pages, 
separately paged. 

Pillars of Salt. An History of some Criminals executed in this Land, 
For Capital Crimes. With some of their Dying Speeches ; Collected 
and Published, For the Warning of such as Lived in Destructive 
Courses of Ungodliness. Whereto is added, for the better improve- 
ment of this History, a Brief Discourse about the Dreadful Justice of 
God, in Punishing of Sin, with Sin. pp. 111. 

Sm. 8° Boston, in New England. Printed by B. Green and J. Allen, 
for Samuel Phillips, 1699. 

A Pillar of Gratitude. Or, A brief Recapitulation, of the Matchless 
Favours, with which the God of Heaven hath obliged the Hearty 
Praises of His New-English Israel. A Sermon delivered in the Audi- 
ence of His Excellency, the Earl of Bellomont, Captain General, and 
Governor in Chief, and of the Council & Representatives, of the 
General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, Con- 
vened at Boston, in New-England. On May 29, 1700, the Day, for 
Election of Counsellors, in that Province. Whereto there is Appen- 
diced, an Extract of Some Accounts, concerning the Wonderful Suc- 
cess of the Glorious Gospel, in the East Indies, pp. 48. 

12° Boston, by B. Green & J. Allen, 1700. 

Things that Young People should Think upon. Or, The Death oi 
Young People Improved, In some Lively Admonitions to the Living. 
With Consolations, to the Bereaved Parents of such Young People, 
as are by an Early, (and perhaps a Sudden) Death, taken from them. 
pp. 16 and over. 

Sm. 8° Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, 1700. 



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A Warning to the Flocks against Wolves in Sheeps-Cloathing. Or, A 
Faithful Advice from several Ministers of the Gospel, in and near 
Boston, unto the Churches of New-England, relating to the Dangers 
that may arise from Impostors, pretending to be Ministers. With a 
Brief History of some Impostors, pp. 79, (1). 

16° Boston, Printed for the Booksellers, 1700. 

"A Letter Containing a Remarkable History of an Impostor" 
[Samuel May], dated 25 d. 10 m. 1699, signed by C. Mather, pp. 29-52; 
A Postscript, " Something to be Known by all the churches," etc. 

American Tears upon the Ruins of the Greek Churches. A Compendi- 
ous, but Entertaining History of the Darkness come upon the Greek 
Churches, in Europe and Asia. Composed by an American. With 
An Appendix containing a Relation of the Conversion of a Jew, 
Named Shalome Ben Shalomoh. pp. 80. 

16° Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, for, and 
sold by Samuel Seicall Junior, 1701. 

The appendix has (p. 56) a separate title and imprint, with a pre- 
face (3 pp.) signed, " Cotton Mather." 

A Companion for the Afflicted. The Duties and the Comforts of Good 
Men, under their Afflictions. In Two Brief and Plain Discourses. 
Accommodated unto the Condition That All at Some Times, and 
Some at All Times, do Encounter withal, pp. 56. 

18° Boston, in N. E. Printed by T. Green, for, and sold by Samttel 
Sewall Junior, 1701. 

Death made Easie & Happy. Two Discourses on the Prudent Appre- 
hensions of Death. With Serious Thoughts in Dying Times : or, A 
Discourse upon Death, pp. (2), 106. 

24° London, Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1701. 

A Letter to Ungospellized Plantations, Briefly Representing the Excel- 
lency and Necessity of a People's Enjoying the Gospel of the Lord 
Jesus Christ among them, pp. 16. 

8° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen, 1702. 

Magnalia Christi Americana : or, the Ecclesiastical History of New- 
England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of 
our Lord, 1698. In Seven Books. To which is subjoined An Appendix 
of Remarkable Occurrences which New-England had in the Wars 
with the Indian Salvages, from the Year 1688, to the Year 1698. 
pp. (30), 38; (2), 75; (2), 238; (2), 125;— 222; 100, (2), 88; 118; 
Errata (2). Folio, London, Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, mdccii. 

Also First American Edition from the London Edition of 1702. 
2 Vols. 8° pp. 573; 595. Hartford, 1820. Published by Silas Andrus. 

Another edition, also in two volumes, has in Vol. I. the imprint, Silas 
Andrus & Son, Hartford, 1855, but in Vol. II. the date is 1853. Both vol- 
umes are entered according to Act of Congress, 1852. Vol. 1. has a Memoir 
of Cotton Mather, by Samuel G. Drake* 

Necessary Admonitions. Containing Just Thoughts upon some Sins, 
Too Little Thought of, or, A Brief Discourse Concerning Sins of 
Omissions. Made 11 d. 4 m. 1702. pp. (2), 34. 

12° Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Samuel 
Phillips, 1702. 



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The Pourtraiture of a Good Man, Drawn With the Pencils of the Sanc- 
tuary, in such Colours as the Oracles of the Sacred Scriptures have 
given him. At a Lecture, in the Audience of the General Assembly, 
at Boston, June 25, 1702. pp. 34. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed for, and sold by Benjamin Eliot, 1702. 

A Seasonable Testimony to the Glorious Doctrines of Grace, At this 
Day many ways undermined in the World. Considered, by a General 
Convention of Ministers, Meeting at Boston, May 28, 1702. And 
Voted by them, to be Published, for the Establishment of the Churches 
in the present Truth, pp. 15. Sm. 8° Boston, 1702. 

The Day which the Lord hath made. A Discourse Concerning the 
Institution and Observation of the Lords-Day. Delivered in a 
Lecture, at Boston, 4 d. 1 m. 1703. pp. (2), 46. 

Sm. 8° Boston, N. E. Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen, 1703. 

A Family Sacrifice. A Brief Essay To Direct and Excite Family 
Religion ; and Produce the Sacrifices of Righteousness in our Families. 
pp. (2) 40. 
Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen. Sold by B. Eliot, 1703. 

Meat out of the Eater. Or, Funeral-Discourses, Occasioned By the 
Death of several Relatives. Work accommodated unto the Service 
of all that are in any affliction; but very particularly such as are 
afflicted with the loss of their Consorts or Children, pp. (6), 222. 

24° Boston, Benjamin Eliot, 1703. 

The Retired Christian, Or, The Duty of Secret Prayer, Publickly incul- 
cated; In a Sermon, at Bostou Lecture, April 18, 1703. pp. 46. 

12° Boston, Printed by B. Green & J. Allen for S. Phillips, 1703. 

The Wonderful Works of God Commemorated. Praises Bespoke for 
the God of Heaven, In a Thanksgiving Sermon; Delivered on 
Decemb. 19, 1689. Containing Just Reflections upon the Excellent 
Things done by the Great God, more Generally in Creation and Re- 
demption, and in the Government of the World; But more Particu- 
larly in the Remarkable Revolutions of Providence which are every 
where the Matter of present Observation. With a Postscript giving 
an Account of some very stupendous Accidents, which have lately 
happened in France. By Cotton Mather. To which is Added a Ser- 
mon Preached unto the Convention of the Massachusetts Colony in 
New England. With a short Narrative of several Prodigies, which 
New-England halh of late had the Alarms of Heaven in. pp. (8), 62, 
7, 26 [36], 5, 7. 

Sm. 8° Printed at Boston by S. Green and Sold by Joseph Browning 
at the corner of the Prison Lane and Benj. Harris at the London 
Coffee-Honse, 1690. Second Edition. Boston, 1703. 

The Armour of Christianity. A Treatise, Detecting first, the Plots of 
the Devil against our Happiness. Declaring then, the Wiles by 
which those Plots are managed. And Propounding, lastly, the 
Thoughts by which those Wiles may be Defeated.^. (2), 234. 

12° Boston, in N. E. Printed by Timothy Green, for Benjamin 
Eliot, 1704. 

Baptistes : A Conference About the Subject and Manner of Baptism, 
Between C. M. and D. R. pp. (3), 32. 8° Boston, 1704. 

A Faithful Monitor. Offering, An Abstract of the Lavves in the Province 
of the Massachusett-Bay. New-England, Against those Disorders, the 



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Suppression whereof is desired and pursued by them that wish well 
to the worthy Designs of Reformation. With some Directions and 
Encouragements, to dispense due Rebukes, & Censures unto all 
Censurable Actions, pp. 56. 

Sm. 8° Boston: Printed . . . by Timothy Green, 1704. 
A Weaned Christian, Or, Some Good Things, By which a Serious 
Christian May be Made Easy When Great Things are Deny'd unto 
him. In a Brief Essay, to render the Language of Heaven in Multi- 
plied Judgments upon the Earth, Articulate, pp. 42. 

12° Boston, Printed and sold by Timothy Green, 1704. 

A Faithful Man, Described and Rewarded. Some Observable & Service- 
able Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Michael Wigglesworth. 
Late Pastor of Malclon ; Who Rested from his Labours, on the Lords- 
Day, June 10th. 1705. In the Seventy Fourth year of his Age. And 
Memorials of Piety, Left behind him among his Written Experiences. 
With a Funeral Sermon Preached (for him) at Maldon ; June 24. By 
Cotton Mather, pp. (6), 48. 12° Boston, Printed by B. Green, 1705. 

" The Dedication," pp. 4, is signed " Increase Mather." The 
11 Written Experiences " fill pp. 27-48. On page 48 is a punning epitaph 
on Wigglesworth, in verse. 

Lex Mercatoria. Or, The Just Rules of Commerce Declared. And 
Offences against the Rules of Justice in the Dealing of Men with one 
another Detected. With a Testimony Publickly given against all 
Dishonest Gain, in the Audience of the General Assembly of the 
Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, New England, Nov. 9, 1704. 
pp. 40. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by Timothy Green, 1705. 

Free-Grace, Maintained & Improved. Or, The General Offer of the 
Gospel, Managed with Considerations of the Great Things done by 
Special Grace, in the Election and Redemption and Vocation Of those 
who Embrace that Offer, and The Illustrious Doctrines of Divine 
Predestination and Humane Impotency, Rescued from the Abuses, 
which they too frequently meet withal; And rendered (as they arc) 
highly Useful to the Designs of Practical Piety. In Two brief Dis- 
courses; Published at the Desire of Some, who have been greatly 
Apprehensive of Growing Occasions for such Treatises, pp. (2), 70. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by B. Green, 1706. 

The Best Ornaments of Youth. A Short Essay on the Good Things, 
which are found in Some, and should be found in All, Young People, 
and which Wherever they are found, Heaven will take a Favourable 
Notice of them. A Sermon, pp. 36. 

12° Boston, in JV. E., Timothy Green, 1707. 

Frontiers Well-Defended. Au Essay to Direct the Frontiers of a 
Countrey Exposed unto the Incursions of a Barbarous Enemy. How 
to behave themselves in their Uneasy Station? Containing Admoni- 
tions of Piety, Propos'd by the Compassion of some Friends unto 
their Welfare, to be Lodg'd in the Families of our Frontier Planta- 
tions, pp. 52. Sm. 8° Boston, in N. E., Printed by T. Green, 1707. 
Followed by " The Fall of Babylon." pp. (2), 20. 

The Spirit of Life entering into the Spiritually Dead. An Essay, to 
bring a Dead Soul into the Way, wherein the Quickening Spirit of 
Ged & of Grace, is to Hoped and Waited for; And to Prophesy over 
the Dry Bones in the Valley of Death, such Words of the Lord, as 
use to be the Vehicles of Life unto them. pp. 40. 

Sm. 8° Boston, in N. E., Printed and sold by Timothy Green, 1707. 



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Corderius Araericanns. An Essay upon The Good Education of Child- 
ren. And what may Hopefully be Attempted, for the Hope of the 
Flock, in a Funeral Sermon upon Mr. Ezekiel Cheever. The Ancient 
and Honorable Master of the Free-School in Boston, who left off, but 
when Mortality took him off, in August, 1793, the ninety-fourth year 
of his age, With an Elegy and an Epitaph upon him. By one that 
was once a Scholar to him. pp. (6), 34. 

8° Boston, Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas Boone, 1708. 

Also an edition printed at Boston, 1828. " To which is added A selection 
from the Poems of Cheever's Manuscript." 

A Good Evening for the Best of Dayes. An Essay, To Manage an 
Action of Trespass, against Those who Mispend the Lords-Day 
Evening, In such Things as have a Tendency to Defeat the Good of 
the Day. A Sermon in the Audience of the General Assembly, at 
Boston, 4 d. 9 m. 1708. pp. (6), 26. 

8° Boston, Printed by B. Green, 1708. 

Family-Religion urged. Or, Some Serious Considerations, offer'd to 
the Reason and Conscience of Every Prayerless Householder, with 
Plain Directions how the Gift of Prayer may be taught Persons of 
the Meanest Capacity To which is added, a select number of choice 
Hymn. pp. 24. 

12° Boston, 1709. 

The Temple Opening. A Particular Church Considered as a Temple of 
the Lord. In a Sermon Preached on a Day, when such a Church was 
Gathered, and a Pastor to it Ordained, pp. (2), 34. 

24° Boston, Printed by B. Green, for S. Phillips, 1709. 

Bonifacius. An Essay Upon the Good, that is to be Devised and De- 
signed, by those Who Desire to Answer the Great End of Life, and 
to Do Good While they Live. A Book Offered, First, in General, 
unto all Christians, Then Unto Magistrates, Ministers, Physicians, 
Lawyers, Schoolmasters, etc. pp. (2), 206. 

16° Boston, in New England, Printed by B. Green, for Samuel 
Gerrish, 1710. 

Christianity Demonstrated. An Essay to Consider the Sanctifying Work 

of Grace On the Minds of the Faithful, as a Noble Demonstration to 

the Truth of our Holy Religion. With an Exhortation unto All but 

especially unto Young Persons, to seek after that Work of God. pp. 60. 

16° Printed at Boston, in N. E. Sold by Timothy Green, 1710. 

Man Eating the Food of Angels. The Gospel of the Manna, To be 
Gathered in the Morning. With diverse famous & wondrous Examples 
of Early Piety, Especially, the Surprising History, of Christlieb 
Leberecht Von Extor, Late Son to the Physician of the King of 
Prussia. Delivered, part of it, in Boston-Lecture ; part of it on 
another Occasion, pp. (2), 85, (1). 

12° Boston, Printed for T. Green, 1710. 

Nehemiah, A Brief Essay on Divine Consolations, How Great they are; 
And How Great the Regards to be Paid unto them. With An 
Application thereof to Some frequent Cases, Especially The Death 
of Relatives. Offered, at the Lecture in Boston, 30 d. 9 m. 1710. By 
Cotton Mather, d. d. pp. (4), 24. 

4° Boston, in New-England, Printed by Bartholomew Green, 1710. 

Theopolis Americana. An Essay on the Golden Street of the Holy 
City ; publishing a Testimony against the Corruptions of the Market- 



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Place. With Some Good Hopes of Better Things to be yet seen in 
the American World. In a Sermon to The General Assembly of the 
Massachusett-Province in New England. 3d. 9 m., 1709. pp. (4J, 
51, (2). 

12° Boston : Printed by B. Green, 1710. 

Winthropi Justa. A Sermon At the Funeral of the Hon'ble John Win- 
throp, Esq. Late Governour of the Colony of Connecticut in New- 
England. Who Died at Boston, Nov. 27, 1707, in his 69th Year. 
pp. 40. 

8° Printed at Boston in New-England, and Reprinted at London, 
by B. Harris, 1710. 

Manly Christianity. A Brief Essay on the Signs of Good Growth and 
Strength In the most Lovely Christianity, pp. 34. 

Sm. 8° London: For Balph Smith, 1711. 

Perswasions [sic'] from the Terror of the Lord. A Sermon concerning, 
The Day of Judgement; Preached on a Solemn Occasion, 15. d. 
2.m. 1711. pp. (2), 38. 

8° Boston in New- England : Printed by Timothy Green, 1711. 

The Right Way to Shake off a Viper. An Essay on a Case Too Com- 
monly calling for Consideration ; What Shall Good Men do, when they 
are Evil Spoken of? pp. (xi.J, 35. 

8° London : Printed and are to be sold by Sarah Popping at the 
Baven in Pater-Noster Bow, 1711. 

Grace Defended. A Censure on Ungodliness, By which the Grace of 
God is too Commonly Abused. A Sermon Preached on the Twenty- 
fifth Day of December, 1712. Containing Some Seasonable Admon- 
itions of Piety. And Concluded, with a brief Dissertation on the 
Penitent Thief on the Cross. By Cotton Mather, dd. pp. (2), 35, (I). 
8° Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Gerrish, 1712. 

("One of the earliest — perhaps the first— Chr is t mas Sermon 
preached from a puritan pulpit in New England."— J. H. Trumbull.) 

The Old Paths Restored. In a Brief Demonstration that the Doctrines 
of Grace hitherto Preserved in the Churches of the Non-Conformists, 
are not only Asserted in the Sacred Scriptures, but also in the Arti- 
cles and Homilies of the Church of England ; And That the General 
Departure from those Doctrines, Especially in those who have 
Subscribed them, is a Most Unaccountable Apostacy. pp. 12, 24. 

Sm. 8° Boston: Printed and Sold by T. Green, in Middle Street, 
1711, And Beprinted at London, 1712. With a Preface by Will. 
Whiston, a. m. To be sold by A. Baldwin, 1712. 

A Soul Well- Anchored. A Little Manual for Self-Examination; To 
assist a Christian In Examining his Hopes of a Future Blessedness. 
pp. 24. 12° Boston : Printed by B. Green, 1712. 

Thoughts for the Day of Rain. In Two Essay's i. The Gospel of the 
Rainbow. In the Meditations of Piety, on the Appearance of the 
Bright Clouds, with the Bow of God upon them. n. The Saviour 
with His Rainbow. And the Covenant which God will Remember to 
His People in the Cloudy Times that are passing over them. By 
Cotton Mather, d.d. pp. (2), vi. 64. 

8° Boston in JST. E. Printed by B. Green : Sold by Samuel 
Gerrish, 1712. 

A True Survey & Report of the Road. A Brief Essay to Rectify the 
Mistakes of Men, about the Way taken by them. The Whole Way of 



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Transgression, and Particularly, the Wrong Way, wherein Men 
Transgress the Rules of Honesty, Proven an Hard Way. And the 
Good Way of Religion therefore Preferred & Commended. In a Lec- 
ture at Boston, on a Special & Mournful Occasion, pp. 46. 

Sm. 8° Boston, 1712. 

The Wayes and Joyes of Early Piety. One Essay More, To Describe 
and Commend A Walk in the Truth Of our Great Saviour, Unto the 
Children of His People. In the Audience of the General Assembly of 
the Massachusett-Province. By Cotton Mather, d.d. pp. (2), 54, 

(2), aj. 

12° Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green, Sold by Samuel 
Gerrish, 1712. 

Adversus Libertinos. Or, Evangelical Obedience Described and De- 
manded; In an Essay To Establish, the Holy Law of The Glorious 
God Upon The Principles of Justitication by the Faith of the Gospel. 
pp. (i,j 49, (I). 

8° Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Gerrish, 1713. 

The Curbed Sinner. A Discourse Upon the Gracious and Wondrous 
Restraints Laid by the Providence Of the Glorious God On the Sinful 
Children of Men, to Withold them from Sinning against Him, Occa- 
sioned by a Sentence of Death, passed on a poor Young Man, for the 
Murder of his Companion. With some Historical Passages referring 
to that Unhappy Spectacle, pp. (2), xiv., (64). 

12° Boston, N. E. Printed by John Allen, for Nicholas 
Boone, 1713. 

A sermon preached after the condemnation of David Wallis. 

A Man of his Word. A very brief Essay, on Fidelity In Keeping of 
Promises and Engagements. Boston-Lecture; in the Audience of his 
Excellencv the Governour, and of the General Assembly 1 1 d. 4 m. 
1713. pp. (2), 22. 

8° Boston: Printed by John Allen for X. Boone, 1713. 

A New Offer to the Lovers of Religion and Learning, pp. 16. 

Sm. 8° Boston, 1713. 
The Prospectus of Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana." 

A Present of Summer-Fruit. A very brief Essay To Offer Some In- 
structions of Piety, Which the Summer-Season more Particularly and 
Emphatically Leads us to; But such also as are never out of Season. 
Being The short Entertainment of an Auditory in Boston, on a Day 
distinguished with the Heat of the Summer; 5d. 5m., 1713. pp. (2), 29. 
12° Boston: Printed and Sold by B. Green, 1713. 

The Will of a Father Submitted to. The Duty of Patient Submission 
to every Condition, which the Providence of God, Orders for the 
Children of Men. Enforced from the Glorious Pattern of the Blessed 
Jesus, Readily and Cheerfully Submitting to take the Cup, which His 
Father Had given Him. In a very Brief Discourse, made with a 
special Regard unto a Religious Family, Burying an Only Son, And 
at a Time of Much Affliction in the Neighborhood, pp. 40. 
Sm. 8° Boston: Printed by Thomas Fleet, for Daniel Henchman, 1713. 

Family-Religion, Excited and Assisted. Also translated into the Massa- 
chusetts Indian language, pp. 20. 

16° Boston: Printed by B. Green, 1714. 

The Glorious Throne. A Short View of Our Great Lord-Redeemer, on 

His Throne. Ordering by His Providence all the Changes in the 

World : and most Particularly, what has Occurred in the Death of Our 

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Late Memorable Sovereign, and the Legal Succession of the British 
Crown to the Illustrious House of Hanover. In a Sermon on that 
Great Occasion at Boston in New-England, on 23 d. vn m. 1714. 
pp. (2), 37. 

8° Boston: Printed by B. Green, 1714. 

A Monitor for Communicants. An Essay to Excite and Assist Religious 
Approaches to the Table of the Lord. Offered by an Assembly of the 
New English Pastors, unto their own Elocks, and unto all the Churches 
in these American Colonies : With a Solemn Testimony to the Cause 
of God, and Religion, in them. pp. 21. 

12° Boston: Printed by B. Green, 1714. 

Pascentius : A very Brief Essay upon The Methods of Piety. Wherein 
People in whom the Difficulties of the Times have caused Anxieties 
may have a Comfortable Assurance of being at all Times Comforta- 
bly Provided for. Offered unto the Inhabitants of Boston, at their 
Lecture 23. d. x m., 1714. By C. Mather, d.d. & f. r. s. pp. (2j, 33. 
18° Boston in N. E. : Printed by B. Green, for Benj. Eliot and 
Joanna Perry, 1714. 

A Perfect Recovery. The Voice of the Glorious God unto persons 
whom his mercy has recovered from Sickness Exhibited. A Brief 
Discourse to the Inhabitants of a Place that had passed thro' a very 
Sickly Winter, and a Time of much Adversity. With Some Remarks 
on the Shining Patterns of Piety, pp. 60. 12° Boston, 1714. 

Nuncia Bonae Terra Longinqua. A Brief. Account of some Good & 
Great Things a doing For the Kingdom of God, In the Midst of 

Europe. Communicated in a Letter to From Cotton Mather, 

d.d. & f. r. s. pp. (2), 14. 

8° Boston in New-England: Printed by B. Green, for Samuel 
Gerrish, 1715. 

Shaking Dispensations. An Essay Upon the Mighty Shakes which the 
Hand of Heaven, hath given, and is giving, to the World. With some 
Useful Remarks On the Death of the French King, Who left off to 
make the World a Wilderness, and to destroy the Cities thereof; on 
the Twenty-first of August. 1715. In a Sermon on that Great Occa- 
sion, At Boston, New-England. 13 d. vm. m. pp. (2), 50. 

8° Boston : Printed by B. Green, Sold by S. Gerrish, 1715. 

The Christian Cynick. A brief Essay On a Merciful Saviour, Addressed 
by an Unworthy Sinner. With Directions and Encouragements For 
the Addresses, Which will obtain His Favours, pp. (2), 42. 

12° Boston, 1716. 
The City of Refuge. The Gospel of the City Explained ; And the Flight 
of a Distressed Sinner Thereunto, Directed and Quickened ; With a 
special Aspect on the Intentions. Early Piety, pp. 33. 

12° Boston : Printed by T. Fleet and T. Crump, for Daniel 
Henchman, 1716. 

Fair Dealing between Debtor and Creditor. A very Brief Essay upon 
The Caution to be used, about coming into Debt, and getting out of 
it. Offered at Boston-Lecture; 5. d. vi. m. 17 15-16. pp. (2), 30. 

8° Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Samuel Gerrish, 1716. 

Real and Vital Religion Served, In the Various and Glorious Intentions 
of it. With Eight Essays, upon important Subjects which have a 
Serviceable Aspect upon it. pp. 281, 283. 16° Boston, 1716. 



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The Stone Cut out of the Mountain. Aud The Kingdom of God, in 
Those Maxims of it, that cannot be shaken. Exhibited in the Year, 
Seventeen Hundred & Sixteen. Latin Title : Lapis e Monte Excisus. 
Atque Regnum Dei, Ejusdemque Principia in aeternum Stabilienda. 
14 leaves. Sm. 8°. Editur Anno Domini, m dcc xvi. 

A treatise in English and Latin. 

Hades Look'd into. The Power of Our Great Saviour Over the Invisi- 
ble World, and the Gates of Death which lead into that World. Con- 
sidered, In A Sermon Preached at the Fuueral of the Honourable, 
• Wait Winthrop Esq; Who Expired, 7 d. ix m. 1717. In the lxxvi 
Year of his Age. pp. (2), vi, 46. 

8° Boston, Printed by T. Crump, 1717. 
The preface is by Increase Mather. 

Malachi : Or the Everlasting Gospel, preached unto the Nations. And 
those Maxims of Piety, which are to be the Glorious Rules of Be- 
haviour. The only Terms of Communion, and the Happy Stops to 
Controversy, among all that Moved, Meet and Serve those Advances 
which the Kingdom of God is Now Making in the World, pp. (2), 93. 
Sin. 8° Boston, Printed by T. Crump for Bobert Starke, . 1717. 

The Valley of Baca. The Divine Sov'reignty, Displayed and Adored; 
More Particularly, in Bereaving Dispensations, of the Divine Provi- 
dence. A Sermon Preached on the Death of Mrs. Hannah Sewall, 
The Religious & Honourable Consort of Samuel Sewall, Esq; Which 
befell us, on the 19 d. vnr m. 1717. In the sixtieth Year of her 
Age. pp. (2) 28. Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by B. Green, 1717. 

Victorina, The Pleasures of True Piety, A Sermon Preach'd, On the 
Decease and At the Desire, of Mrs. Kathariu Mather, By her Father. 
Whereunto there is added, A further Account of that Young Gentle- 
woman, By another Hand. pp. (2), viii, 86. 

24° Boston, Printed by B. Green, for Daniel Henchman, 1717. 

Zelotes. A Zeal For the House of God, Blown up, in a Sermon unto 
an Assembly of Christians; in the South-Part of Boston on 8 d. xi m. 
1716-17. A Day of Prayer Kept by them, at their First Entrance into 
a New Edifice Erected by them, for the Publick Worship of God our 
Saviour, pp. 44. 

12° Boston, Printed by J. Allen for Nicholas Boone, at the sign of 

the Bible in Cornhill, 1717. 

Faith Encouraged. A Brief Relation of a Strange Impression from 

Heaven, on the Minds ®f some Jewish Children, at the City of Berlin, 

(in the Upper Saxony). And some Remarks, for the Improvement of 

so Marvellous an Occurrence.^. 32. 

Sm. 8° Boston, Printed by J. Allen, for T. Fleet, 1718. 
Psalterium Americanum.- The Book of Psalms, In a Translation 
Exactly conformed uuto the Original ; but all in Blank Verse, Fitted 
unto Tunes commonly used in our Churches. Which Pure Offering is 
accompanied with Illustrations, digging for Hidden Treasures in it; 
And Rules to Employ it upon the Glorious and Various Iutentions of 
it, Whereto are added, Some other Portions of the Sacred Scripture, 
to Enrich the Cantional. pp. (2), xxxv, (1), 426. 

Sm. 8° Boston, in V. E., Printed by S. Kneeland, for B. Eliot, S. 
Gerrish, D. Henchman, and J. Edwards, and Sold at their Shops, 

1718. 
" In this singular publication, which is a close translation of the 
Hebrew, Dr. Mather has not only disregarded the modern practice of 
breaking the lines, whether rhymed or not, but he has run out (to use a 



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printer's phrase) the whole matter; so that while each psalm looks 
exactly like prose, and may be read as such, it is, in fact, modulated 
so that it may be sung as lyric verse. The learned Doctor says that 
in the 'twice seven versions' which he has seen, the authors ' put in 
as large an Heap of poor Things, which, are intirely their own, — merely 
for the sake of preserving the Clink of the Rhyme; Which after all 
is of small consequence unto a Generous Poem; and of none at all 
unto the Melody of Singing.'" 

Mirabilia Dei. An Essay On the very Seasonable & Remarkable Inter- 
positions of the Divine Providence, To Rescue & Relieve Distressed 
People, Brought unto the very Point of Perishing-; Especially relating 
to that Twice-Memorable Eifth of November. Offered in the Audi- 
ence of His Excellency the Governour and the General Assembly of 
the Massachusetts-Province, New-England, On the Fifth of Novem- 
ber. 1719. By Cotton Mather, j>d. & f.r.s. pp. (2), 34. 

8° Boston, Printed by B. Green, Printer to His Excellency the 
Governour & Council, 1719. 

The Religion of an Oath. Plain Directions How the Duty of Swear- 
ing, May be Safely Managed, When it is Justly Demanded. And 
Strong Persuasives To avoid the Perils of Perjury. Concluding with 
a most Solemn Explanation of an Oath, which the Laws of Denmark 
have provided for the consideration of them, whom an Oath is pro- 
posal unto. Published at the Desire of Some, who apprehended 
Oaths to be too frequently and faultily trifled with. pp. (2), 30. 

Sm. 8° Boston, N. E., Printed by B. Green, for D. Henchman, 1719. 

A Testimony against Evil Customs. Given by Several Minister, pp. 4. 

4° Boston, A 7 ". E. Printed by Samuel Kneeland, 1719. 

Signed by Cotton Mather, Benjamin Wadsworth and Benjamin 
Col man. 

The Tryed Professor. A very Brief Essay, to Detect and Prevent 
Hypocrisy, and make sure of Sincerity, in the Profession of Religion. 
A Plain, Short, and Useful Manual for the Self-Examination which 
every Christian has Frequent and Solemn Occasion for. pp. 16. 

Sm. 8° Boston, in N. E., Printed by S. Kneeland, 1719. 

Coheleth. A Soul upon Recollection; Coming into Incontestible Senti- 
ments of Religion : Such as all the Sons of Wisdom will and must 
forever Justify. Written by a Fellow of the Royal Society. Offering 
the Advice of a Father going out of the World, unto a Son coming 
into it. pp. (2), 46. 

12° Boston, Printed by S. Kneeland, for JS. Gerrish, 1720. 

The Right Way to Shake off a* Viper. An Essay upon a Case Too com- 
monly calling for Consideration : What shall Good Men do, when they 
are Evil Spoken of? With a Preface of Dr. Increase Mather. The 
Second Impression, pp. (35), xi. - 12° iS. Kneeland, 1720. 

The Accomplished Singer. Instructions How the Piety of Singing with 
a True Devotion, may be obtained and expressed; the Glorious God 
after an uncommon manner Glorified in it, and His People Edified. 
Intended for the Assistance of all that would sing Psalms with Grace 
in their Hearts ; But more particularly to accompany the Laudable 
Endeavours of those who are Learning to Sing by Rule, and seeking to 
preserve a Regular Singing in the Assemblies of the Faithful, pp. (4), 
24. 16° Boston, Printed by B. Green, for JS. Gerrish, 1721. 

With an Attestation from Increase Mather. 

One of the rarest of Cotton Mather's tracts ; Mather remarks : " It 
has been found in some of our congregations, that in length of time, 



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their singing has degenerated into an odd noise, that has had more 
of what we want a name for than any regular singing in it; whereby 
the Celestial Exercise is dishonoured; and indeed the Third Command- 
ment is trespassed upon." 

The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in 
Nature, with Religious Improvements. By Cotton Mather, d.d. And 
Fellow of the Royal Society, pp. vii, (1), 304. 

8° London, Email. Matthews, m.dcc.xxe. 

Honesta Parsimonia; Or, Time Spent as it should be. Proposals, To 
prevent that Great Folly and Mischief, The Loss of Time; And 
Employ the Talent of Time So Watchfully and Fruitfully that a Good 
Account may at Last be given of it. pp. (4), 23. 

12° Boston, Printed by 8. Kneeland, for J. Edwards, 1721. 

India Christiana. A Discourse, Delivered unto the Commissioners, for 
the Propagation of the Gospel among - the American Indians. Which 
is Accompanied with several Instruments relating to the Glorious 
Design of Propagating our Holy Religion, in the Eastern as well as 
the Western, Indies. An Entertainment which they that are Waiting 
for the Kingdom of God will receive as Good News from a far Coun- 
try. By Cotton Mather, d.d. and f.r.s. pp. (2), ii, 94, (1). 

Sm. 8° Boston, in New-England, Printed by B. Green, 1721. 

Partly in the Indian language of New England. The " Corrigenda," 
at the end, is usually wanting. 

Tremencla. The Dreadful Sound with which The Wicked are to be 
Thunderstruck. In a Sermon Delivered unto a great Assembly, in 
which was present, a Miserable African, just going to be Executed, 
for a most Inhumane and Uncommon Murder, at Boston, May 25th, 
1721, To which is added A Conference between a Minister and the 
Prisoner, on the Day before his Execution, pp. 40. 

8° Boston, Printed by B. Green, 1721. 

A Vision in the Temple. The Lord of Hosts Adored ; and the Kings of 
Glory Proclaimed; On a Day of Prayer kept May 10, 1721 at the 
Opening of the New Brick Meeting House in the North part of Bos- 
ton, by the Ministers of the City, with the Society which Built it, and 
this Day Swarmed into it. pp. (2), 45. 

12° Boston, Bobert Starkey, 1721. 

What the Pious Parent wishes for. By Dr. Cotton Mather. Boston 
Lecture 23 d. 1 m. 1721. pp. 34. 8° Boston, 1721. 

This is the first sermon in " A Course of Sermons." 

The Angel of Bethesda, Visiting the Invalids of a Miserable World. 
By a Fellow of the Royal Society, pp. (2), 17, (1). 

8° New-London, Timothy Green, 1722. 

Love Triumphant. A Sermon at the Gathering of a New Church, And 
the Ordaining Of their Pastor; In the North Part of Boston ; May 
23, 1722. With Copies of other Things Offered iu the Publick Actions 
of that Solemn Occasion, pp. (4), 39. 

Sm. 8° Printed by 8. Kneeland, for Nath. Belknap, 1722. 

The Minister. A Sermon, Offer'd unto the Anniversary Convention of 
Ministers, From several Parts of New-England, Met at Boston, 31 d. 
3 m. 1722. By One of their Number. And published at the Request 
of them that heard it. pp. (2), 45. 

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The half-title is " Dr. Cotton Mather's Sermon at the Anniversary 
Convention." 

The Soul upon the Wing. An Essay on The State of the Dead. An- 
swering That Solemn Enquiry, How the Children of Men are at their 
Death disposed of? In a Sermon Occasiou'd bj r the Decease of some 
Desirable Friends lately Departed. By One of the Ministers in the 
North-part of Boston, pp. (4), 24. 

8° Boston, N. E. Printed by B. Green, 1722. 

The Converted Sinner. The Nature of a Conversion to Real and Vital 
Piety. And the Manner in which it is to be Pray'd & Striv'n for A 
Sermon preached in Boston, May 31, 1724. In the Hearing of certain 
Pirates, a little before their Execution, pp. (\), 49. 

8° Boston: Printed for Nath'l Belknap, 1722. 

"These pirates, .John Rose Areder and William White, executed 
June 2, 1724, belonged' to the crew of the dreaded John Phillips." 
'See Drake's 'History of Boston,' p. 570.— J. H. Trumbull. 

Ceelestinus. A Conversation in Heaven, Quickened and Assisted, with 
Discoveries of Tilings in the Heavenly World. And some Relations 
of the Views and Joys That have been granted unto Several Persons 
in the Confines of it. Introduced by Agathangelus, Or, An Essay on 
the Ministry of the Holy Angels. And Recommended unto the Peo- 
ple of God, by the very Reverend Dr. Increase Mather; Waiting in 
the Daily Expectation of his Departure to that Glorious World. 
pp. (2), viii, 27, ii, 162. 

12° Boston, Printed by 8. Kneeland, for JSfath. Belknap, 1723. 

Published by Dr. Cotton Mather, with a dedication to Mr. Thomas 
Hollis. 

Euthanasia. A Sudden Death Made Happy and Easy to the Dying 
Believer. Exemplified in John Frizell, Esq; Who so Expired, April 
10, 1723. pp. (4), 27. 8° Boston, Printed by 8. Kneeland, mdccxxiii. 

The Voice of God in a Tempest. A Sermon Preached in the Time of 
the Storm; Wherein many and heavy and unknown Losses were 
Suffered at Boston, (aud Parts Adjacent,) Febr. 24, 1722-3. By one 
of the Ministers in Boston, pp. (4), 19. 

12° Boston, N E., Printed by 8. Kneeland, mdccxxiii. 

The Nightingale. An Essay on Songs among Thorns. Or the Supports 
& Comforts of the Afflicted Believer. Thankfully Published by One 
that has had Experience of thein. pp. (i), 19. 

8° Boston in New England: Printed by B. Green, 1724. 

Parentator. Memoirs of Remarkables in the Life and the Death of the 
Ever-Memorable Dr, Increase Mather. Who Expired, August 23, 
1723. pp. (2 J, x., xiv., 239, (6). 

Sm. 8° Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724. 

Rewritten and issued as "Memoirs of the Life of the late Reverend 
Increase Mather." 

Christodnlus. A Good Reward of A Good Servant. Or, The Service 
of a Glorious Christ, Justly Demanded and Commended, from a View 
of the Glory with which it shall be Recempensed [.sic]. With Some 
Commemoration of Mr. Thomas Walter, Lately a Pastor to a Church 
in Roxbury : Who had an Early Dismission from what of that Service 
was to be done in This World. Jan. 10, 1724-5. By Cotton Mather, 
d.d. and f. r. s. pp. (3), in, 33. 

8° Boston : Printed by T. Fleet, for S. Gerrish, 1725. 



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The Rev. Thomas Walter was a grandson of Increase and a nephew 
of Cotton Mather. 

The Palm-Bearers. A brief Relation of Patient and Joyful Sufferings; 
and of Death Gloriously Triumphed over; In the History of the 
Persecution which the Church of Scotland suffered, from the Year 
1660, to the Year 1668. pp. (2), viii., 58. 

Sm. 8° Boston: Printed by T. Fleet, for S. Gerrish, 1725. 

Vital Christianity : A brief Essay On the Life of God, in the Soul of 
Man ; Produced and Maintained by a Christ Living in us: and The 
Mystery of a Christ within, Explained, pp. (\), 30. 

8° Printed by Samuel Keimer, for Eleazer Phillips,, in Charles- 
Town in New- England, 1725. 

Ecclesite Manilia. The Peculiar Treasure of the Almighty King opened : 
And the Jewels that are made up in Exposed. At Boston Lecture, 
July 14, 1726. Whereof ONE is more particularly Exhibited, in the 
Character of Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, Who was Laid up a few Days 
before. And Certain Instruments and Memorials of Piety, Written 
by that Valuable and Honourable Gentlewoman, pp. (2), 42. 

8° Boston : Daniel Henchman, 1726. 

Mrs. Cotton was the widow of Rev. Roland Cotton, of Sandwich, 
Mass., and a sister of GurdonSaltonstall, Governor of Connecticut. 

A Good Old Age. A Brief Essay on The Glory of Aged Piety. Humbly 
Commended and Presented unto Them whose Arrival to, or near, 
Sixty, ranks them Among The Aged. pp. (2), 42. 

Sm. 8° Boston : Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, for 8. 
Gerrish, • 1726. 

Hatzar-Maveth. Comfortable Words; In a Short Essay on the Com- 
forts Of One Living to God, but Walking through the Valley of the 
Shadow of Death, and finding it no more than A Shadow of Death. 
pp. (4), 28. 12° Boston, 1726. 

Manuductio ad Ministerium. Directions for a Candidate of the Min- 
istry. Wherein, First, a Right Eoundation is laid for his Future 
Improvement; And, Then, Rules are Offered for such a Management 
of his Academical & Preparatory Studies; And thereupon, For such a 
Conduct after his Appearance in the World ; as May Render him a 
Skilful and Useful Minister of the Gospel, pp. (2), xviii, (2), 151. 

8° Boston : Printed for Thomas Hancock, 1726. 

Nails Fastened. Or, Proposals of Piety Reasonably and Seasonably 
Complyed withal. A Brief Essay on the Conduct Expected of such 
as have had their Duty Proposed unto them. Designed more Particu- 
larly to be Loclg'd and Left, where Pastoral Visits, have Watched for 
the Souls of a Gospellizecl People, pp. (2), 22. 

12° Boston : Joseph Edwards, mdccxxvi. 

Ratio Discipline Fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A Faithful Account of the 
Discipline Professed and Practised; in the Churches of New-England. 
With Interspersed and Instructive Reflections on the Discipline of 
the Primitive Churches, pp. (2), iv., 207, (3). 

Sm. 8° Boston: S. Gerrish, 1726. 

In a postscript, on page 208, Cotton Mather owns himself the author 
of this book, a sort of historical relation of the church discipline of 
New England. Preceding is an attestation of four pages, dated the 
10th Oct. 1719, and signed by Increase Mather. 

Suspiria Vinctorum. Some Account of the Condition to which the 
Protestant Interest in the Werld is at This Day reduced. And the 



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Duty, to which all that would prove themselves True Christians must 
and will count themselves obliged, pp. (2j, 22. 

12° Boston: Printed by T. Fleet, 1726. 

The Balance of the Sanctuary. A Short and Plain Essay ; Declaring 
The True Balance Wherein Every Thing Should be Weighed, And 
Detecting, The False Balance. A Lecture. In the Audience of the 
General Assemblv at Boston, Oct. 5, 1727. j)p. (2), 24. 

12° Boston : Printed by T. Fleet, 1727. 

Christian Loyalty. Or, Some Suitable Sentiments On the Withdraw of 
King George the First, Of Glorious Memory, And the Access of King 
George the Second, Unto the Throne of the British Empire. By 
Cotton Mather, pp. (2), it, 25. 

16° Boston ; Printed by T. Fleet, 1727. 

Hor-Hagidgad. An Essay upon, An Happy Departure. Occasioned By 
the Decease of the Valuable Mr. William Waldron, Late Pastor to 
one of the Churches in Boston; Who Departed, Sept. 11, 1727. By 
Cotton Mather, d.d. and f.r.s. pp. (4), 8, 28. 

8° Boston: S. Gerrish, 1727. 

Ignorantia Scientifica. A brief Essay on Mans not knowing his Time : 
The Just Inferences from it. And the Great Advantages of it. Upon a 
Special and Mournful Occasion, pp. (4), 24. 

Sm. 8° Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green, for Samuel 
Gerrish, 1727. 

The Marrow of the Gospel. A very brief Essay, on the Union Between 
the Redeemer And the Beleever. pp. 24. 

8° Boston: N. Belknap, 1727. 

The Terror of the Lord. Some Account of the Earthquake That shook 
New-England, In the Night, Between the 29 and the 30 of October. 
1727. With a Speech, Made Unto the Inhabitants of Boston, Who 
Assembled the Next Morning, for the proper Exercises of Religion, 
On so Uncommon, and so Tremendous an Occasion, pp. (4), 37, 6. 

8° Boston: Printed by T. Fleet, for 8. Kneeland, 1727. 

The Comfortable Chambers, Opened and Visited, upon the Departure 
of that Aged and Faithful Servant of God, Mr. Peter Thatcher, The 
Never-to-be-forgotten Pastor of Milton. Who made his flight thither, 
On December 17, 1727. pp. (2), 31. 

Sm. 8° Boston: Printed for J. Edwards, 1728. 

"This was the last Sermon my Father deliver'd from the pulpit: and 
truly such a Sermon as a good Minister would desire shou'd be his 
last."— S. Mather. An obituary of Mr. Thatcher is given in •• Ad- 
denda from the 'Weekly Journal,' JNo. XI., Milton, December 23, 1727," 
pp. 4. 

The Mystical Marriage. A Brief Essay, on, The Grace of the Re- 
deemer espousing The Soul of the Believer. By the Late Reverend 
Dr. Cotton Mather. Approved by Several Pastors of our Churches. 
pp. (4), 16. 

12° Boston, V. E. : N. Belknap, mdccxxvih. 

The Widow of Nairn. Remarks On the Illustrious Miracle Wrought by 
Our Almighty Redeemer, On the behalf of a Desolate Widow. By the 
Late Reverend Cotton Mather, pp. (4j, 30. 

8° Boston : Printed in the Year mdccxxvih. 
This was written in 1724, and dedicated to Mrs. Dorothy Frizzel. 



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A Monitory Letter To them who Needlessly and Frequently Absent 

themselves from the Pablick Worship of GOD. Briefly Representing 

the Nature and Intent of Religious Assemblies, And the Grievous 

Evil of Profane Absence from them. pp. (\5), (2). Second Edition. 

12° Boston : Printed by S. Kneeland & T. Green, 1738. 

Family Religion Excited and Assisted. The third impression. 

8° Newport, 1740. 

The Case of a troubled Mind. A brief Essay, Which apprehends the 
Face of a Gracious God Hidden from it. The Symptoms of the 
Troubles, and the Methods of preventing them. The Second Edition. 
pp. 23. 8° Boston: Printed by G. Bogers, for N. Proctor, 1741. 

Signatus. The Sealed Servants Of our God, Appearing with Two Wit- 
nesses, To produce a Weil-Established Assurance Of their being the 
Children of the Lord Almighty. Or The Witness of the Holy Spirit, 
with the Spirit of the Beleever, to his Adoption of God; briefly and 
plainly Described. At Boston Lecture, 1726-7. pp. vni. 31. 

The Second Edition. With a Preface and Appendix by the Rev. Mr. 
Croswell. 8° Boston: Printed by Bogers & Fovole, 1748. 

Essays to do Good. Addressed to all Christians. By the Late Cotton 
Mather. A New Edition, Improved by George Burder. From the 
Latest London Edition, pp. 148. 

12° Boston: Printed by Lincoln & Edrnands, 1808. 

Also an edition published by the American Tract Society, New York. 

n. d. 

Proposals to Lawyers. From Essays to do Good. pp. 8. 

8° Barnard, Vt. : Published by T. Dix, n. d. 



AZARIAH MATHER. 

Wo to Sleepy Sinners. Or, A Discourse upon Amos vi. 1. Begun in a 
Lecture at Saybrook, January 6, 1719, 20. pp. (2), 29, (I). 

8° New London : Printed by T. Green, 1720. 

None but Christ. A Discourse on John vi. 67, 68. Preach'd Privately, 
to a Religious Society in Say-brook, pp. (2), 22. 

8° New London : T. Green, 1722. 

The Sabbath-Day's Rest Asserted, Explained, Proved, and Applied. 
pp. (2), 4, 38, (I). 

8° Boston, N. E. Printed by B. Green, Jun.,for 8. Gerrish, 1725. 

" An Attestation," pp. 4, is signed " Co. Mather." 

Good Rulers a choice Blessing. A Sermon preached before the Great 
and General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut, at Hartford, in 
New-England, May 12th, 1725. The Day for the Election of the Hon- 
ourable the Governour & Deputy-Governour and the Worshipful 
Assistants there. By Azariah Mather, A. M., Pastor of Christ's 
Church in Saybrook. Published (with the addition of some things 
either not Delivered at the Preaching, though Written ; or but hinted) 
by Order of Authority, pp. (2), 49, 1. 

8° New London: T. Green, 1725. 

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SAMUEL MATHER (of Boston). 

De Ordinatione Dissertatio Historica. pp. 46. Londini, mdccxtii. 

A Discourse Concerning the Necessity of Believing the Doctrine of the 
Holv Trinity as profess'd and maintain'd by the Established Church 
of England. . . . pp. (3), 75, 1. , 4° London, 1719. 

A Discourse Concerning the God Head of the Holy Ghost, The Third 
Person in the Eternal Trinity Wherein the Sentiments of Dr. Clarke 
are considered.^- fviii), 141, 2. 4° London, 1719. 

An Essay Concerning Gratitude, Written by Samuel Mather, M.A. and 
Chaplain to his Majesty's Castle William, pp. (7), 53. 

"Boston, N. E., Printed for T. Hancock, mdccxxii. 

The Departure and Character of Elijah Considered and Improved. A 
Sermon After the Decease of the very Reverend and Learned Cotton 
Mather, D.D., F. R. S. and Minister of the North Church, who expired 
Feby. 13, 1727-8. In the Sixty-sixth Year of his Age. pp. 4, 26. 

8° Boston: Printed by G. Bogers, 1728. 

The Life of the Very Reverend and Learned Cotton Mather, D. D. & F. 
R. S. Late Pastor of the North Church in Boston. Who Died, Feby. 
13, 1727-8. pp. (4), iv, 6, 10, 186. 8° Boston, mdccxxix. 

An Essay Concerning Gratitude. Written by Samuel Mather, A. M., 
and Chaplain to His Majesty's Castle William, pp. 53. 

8° Boston, Printed for T. Hancock, mdccxxxii. 

All Men Will not be Saved Forever or an Attempt to prove That this 

is a Scriptural Doctrine; and To give a sufficient Answer to the 

Publisher of Extracts in Favor of the Salvation of All Men, &c. pp. 31. 

8° Boston, Printed by Benjamin Edes, .mdcclxxxii. 

Second Edition, pp. 32, mdcclxxxiii. 

An Apology for the Liberties of the Churches in New England, to which 
is prefix'd a Discourse concerning Congregational Churches, pp. 216. 

8° Boston, Printed by T. Fleet, 1738. 

The Fall of the Mighty lamented. A Funeral Discourse Upon the 
Death of Her Most Gracious Majesty Wilhelmina Dorothea Carolina, 
Queen Consort to His Majesty of Great Britain, France and Ireland: 
Preached on March 23, 1737-8, In the Audience of His Excellency the 
Governour the honourable the Lieutenant-Governour, and the 
honourable His Majesty's Council at the Thursday Lecture in Boston, 
New-England, pp. (2), 33. 8° Boston, Printed by J. Draper, 1738. 

War is lawful, and Arms are to be proved. A Sermon Preached to the 
Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company, on June 4, 1739. The 
Anniversary Day for Electing their Officers, at Boston, New-England. 
pp. 33. 8° Boston, Printed by T. Fleet, 1739. 

The Faithful Man abounding with Blessings. A Funeral Discourse 
Upon the Death of the Honourable Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. ; one of 
His Majesty's Council for the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in 
New-England; who Departed this Life on December 3, 1739. pp. (2), 
32. 8° Boston, Printed by J. Draper, mdccxl. 

A Funeral Discourse Preached on the Occasion of the Death of The 
High, Puissant and most Illustrious Prince Frederick Lewis, Prince of 
Great Britain, Electoral Prince of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, Prince 
of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, &c. In the Audience of the Honerable 



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Spencer Phips, Esq. ; Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief; 
and the Honorable Council, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay; 
On May 22d, 1751, at Boston, New-England, pp. 31. 

8° Boston, Printed by John Draper, 1751. 

The Walk of the Upright with its Comfort. A Funeral Discourse after 
the Decease of the Rev. William Welsted who died April 29, and Mr. 
Ellis Gray, who died on January 7th preceeding it. Colleague 
Pastors of a Church in Boston. Preached to their People in the New 
Brick Meeting-House, on May 6, 1753. pp. 34. 

8° Boston, for Michael Dennis, 1753. 

A Dissertation Concerning the Most remarkable name of Jehovah. 
pp. 101. 8° Boston, 1760. 

Of the Pastoral Care : A Sermon Preached to the Reverend Ministers of 
the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, at their 
Annual Convention in Boston, on May 27, 1762. By Samuel Mather, 
M. A. pp. 31. 8° Boston, Printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1762. 

Essay on the Lord's Prayer (half title). The Lord's Prayer or a new 
attempt to recover the right version and genuine Meaning of that 
Prayer, pp. iv, 66, 1. 

8° Boston, Printed by Kneeland & Adams, mdcclxvi. 

An Attempt to shew, that America must be Known to the Ancients ; 
made at the Request, and to gratify the Curiosity of an Inquisitive 
Gentleman : To which is added an Appendix concerning the American 
Colonies, and some Modern Managements against them. By an 
American Englishman, Pastor of a Church in Boston, pp. 35. 

8° Boston, J. Kneeland, 1773. 

The preface, which comes before the title page, is signed by Samuel 
Mather, the Author. 

The Dying Legacy of an Aged Minister of the Everlasting Gospel, to 
the United States of North America, pp. (2), 11, 29. 

8° Boston, Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons, in Cornhill, 

M,DCC,LXXXIII. 

Account of the first Settlement of Boston, written in the Year 1784, by 
the late Dr. Samuel Mather. Mass. Historical Society Collections, 
page 256, 1792. 



MOSES MATHER. 

Sermon Preached in the Audience of the General Assembly of the State 
of Connecticut, in Hartford, on the Day of their Anniversary Election, 
May 10, 1781. 

New London : Printed by Timothy Green, Printer to the Governor 
and Company, m.dcclxxxi. 



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MATHER MANUSCRIPTS. 

In addition to printed works of the Mather family in the 
library of the Society, there is also a large and valuable 
collection of their manuscripts, including treatises, sermons, 
diaries, interleaved almanacs, letters and memoranda. It 
would require much more time to prepare a complete 
catalogue of this interesting matter than the compiler can 
give to it ; he must therefore content himself with a few of 
the more important titles. 

In the hand-writing of Richard Mather is the original 
draft of the Cambridge Platform. Also 

44 Answer of the Elders to certaine doubts and objections against sundry- 
passages in y e platform of Discipline agreed upon by y e late Synod." 
(Oct. 26,1635.j 

44 Answers to Arguments for the Government of the Church to be in the 
hands of the People." 1644. 

"Observations and Arguments respecting the Government of Christian 
Churches." 1650. 

" Answers to twenty-one questions from the General Court at Hartford 
to the General Court at Boston. 1657." 



Of Increase Mather's may be mentioned his Auto- 
biography, written for his children. 

"Testimony against Several profane and superstitious customs preva- 
lent in New-England." 

(This was printed in 1687.) 

" Sermons for the Sacrament." 1713—1719. 

Interleaved Almanacs, with manuscript notes, from 1660 to 1721, also 
sermons and letters. 



In the hand-writing of Cotton Mather, are a large num- 
ber of treatises, sermons, letters, diaries and memoranda. 
Of these the following are probably of the most interest : 

41 A Brand Pluck'd out of the Burning." 



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This is an account of Mercy Short who suffered from Witchcraft, of 
whom mention is made in " Another Brand Pluck't out of the Burning, 
or, More Wonders of the Invisible World." 

" The Angel of Bethesda, or some Remarks on the grand Cause of Sick- 
ness." (This was printed in 1722J. 

" The Best of Blessings, — Real and Vital Piety defended and assisted 
in six brief essays, &c." 

"The Lord in the Garden." 

" Y e Lord Before the Ecclesiastical Court." 

11 Y e Lord Before the Political Court." 

" One Among the Myrtle trees. A Brief & plain Essay on Good 
Services to be done by people in low stations." 

" The New Heavens Opened." 

" Where to find Gog and Magog." 

" The New Earth Surveyed." 

"When shall those things be? When the Grand Revolution to be 
look'd for!" 

" The Ancient Gospel." 26 d. 6 m. 1688. 

Five "Sacramental Discourses on the name of y e Lord Jesus Christ." 
1689. 

"A Day of Prayer Kept by the North Church for Discussion about y e 
calling of a Minister." 2 d. 8 m. 1717. 

" Triparadisus. Essays on, i. The paradise of the old world enriched 
with some instructive illustrations on the Sacred Geography, n. The 
Paradise of Departed Spirits fortify ed with well attested Relations to 
demonstrate as well as illustrate the state of such. ni. The Paradise 
of the New Earth under the influences of the New Heavens." 

" A Discourse concerning Congregational Churches." 

"The Observations and Reflections of the Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather con- 
cerning Witchcraft. 1692." 

"A Declaration of the Oppressed Bretheren in the South part of 
Boston." 

"Letter to the Bretheren of the Church at New Haven, 20th 4 m. 
1715." 

" Letter proposing an address to the New King." (Geo. I). 

" Letter respecting the appointing of a Chaplain at the Castle." Nov. 
7, 1716. 

"Letter concerning the call of Mr. Fisk to the New South Church, 
Boston." 



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Among the manuscripts of Samuel Mather of Boston, 
are : 

"Disquisition concerning the most Holy Duty in which it is en- 
deavoured to communicate the Scriptural Doctrine concerning God, 
and His Manifestation to His Intelligent Creatures, &c. In 12 
chapters." 

The Song. The Very Songs. To Shelomoh, or Solomon himself, the 
Prince of Peace : or An Honest Attempt to translate and explain the 
same with desirable Truth & Fidelity." 

" Scriptural Philosophy. An Attempt to show That the Right Principles 
of Natural Philosophy are contained in the Sacred Writings. By 
one of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the Massachusetts 
Commonwealth." 




ADDENDA. 



Since the "List of Books" was printed, the second part 
of the Brinley Library has been sold in New York, the 
auction occurring March 22, 1880, and the three following 
days. At this sale, the Antiquarian Society had a credit of 
$1250 in addition to a small balance from the credit at 
the first, enabling them to add to their collections one 
hundred and ninety-two books, and one hundred and four- 
teen pamphlets. 

Among the more important works received were the 
following : — . 

Byfield (Nathaniel 1 ). An account of the Late Revolution in New- 
England. Together with the Declaration of the Gentlemen, Mer- 
chants, and Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country adjacent. April 
18, 1689, pp. 20. Sm. 4° London, for Eic. Chiswell, 1689. 

The first London edition. 

Massachusetts. A Copy of the Kings Majesties Charter, for Incorpora- 
ting the Company of the Massachusets Bay in New-England in 
America. Granted in the fourth Year of his Highness Reign of Eng- 
land, Scotland, France and Ireland, Anno Bom. 1628. Wood-cut of 
the Massachusetts seal on the title-page. pp. (2) 26. 

4° Boston, S. Green, for B. Harris, 1689. 

[White (Rev. John)]. The Planters Plea. Or The Grovnds of Planta- 
tions examined, and vsuall Objections answered. Together with a 
manifestation of the causes mooving such as have lately undertaken a 
Plantation in New-England : for the satisfaction of those that ques- 
tion the lawfulnesse of the Action, pp. (4) 84. 

4° London, William Iones, 1630. 

Wood (William). New Englands Prospect. A true, lively, and experi- 
mentall description of that part of America, commonly called NeAV- 
England, &c. pp. (8), 83, (5). 

Sm. 4° London, Tho. Cotes, for John Bellamie, 1635. 



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The Charters of the Province of Pensilvania and City of Philadelphia. 
pp. 30. Philadelphia, B. Franklin, 1742 — Perm and the Indians, a 
Magazine article, 4 leaves inlaid, n. p., n. d. 2 in 1 vol., Portrait of 
Franklin (Cochin, 1777, engr. by St. Anbin) inserted; also, engraving of 
the "remnant of the Great Tree" under which Penn's Treaty with the 
Indians ivas made. Sm. folio. 

The Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser: April 14th— Dec. 30th, 
1785 (Nos. 1931-2154). folio, J. Dunlap & D. C. Claypoole. 

M. T. Cicero's Oato Major, or his Discourse of Old-Age : With 
Explanatory Notes, pp. viii, 159, rubricated title. 

8° Philadelphia, B. Franklin, 1744. 
A fine copy, with the autograph of President Thomas Clap, of Yale 
College, •' dono D. Benj. Franklin, 174(3." Measures 7f by 4£ inches. 
Gospel Order Revived, Being an Answer to a Book lately set forth 
by the Reverend Mr. Increase Mather, President of Harvard College, 
&e. Entituled, The Order of the. Gospel, &c. By sundry Ministers of the 
Gospel in New-England. 5 prelim, leaves, pp. 40. 

4° n. p. [New York, Wm. Bradford,] 1700. 

For the history of the book, see Thomas's Hist, of Printing, II. 90, 
and 458-66, and Sibley's Harvard Graduates, I. 455. 

Keith (George.) The Presbyterian and Independent Visible Churches in 
New-England and Else-vvhere, Brought to the Test,... with a Call and 
Warning from the Lord to the People of Boston and New-England, 
to Repent, &c. And two Letters to the Preachers in Boston ; and an 
Answer to the gross Abuses, Lyes and Slanders of Increase Mather 
and Nath. Morton, &c, 5 prelim, leaves, pp. 230. 

Sm. 8° London, Thomas Northcott, 1691. 

Several scarce local histories and valuable volumes relat- 
ing to the American Revolution were also obtained. 

The Mather publications added to the library were as 
follows : — 

Mather (Cotton). Reasonable Religion: or, the Truths of the Christ- 
ian Religion demonstrated. With the Religion of the Closet, and 
Family Religion Urged. Preface, by Rev. Dr. [Daniel] Williams, 
pp. (20), ISG". 12° London, 1713. 

From the Boston edition of 1700. 

Mather (Cotton). The Wonders of the Invisible World: being an Ac- 
count of the Tryals of Several Witches, lately executed in New-Eng- 
land : And of several remarkable Curiosities therein Occurring. 
Together with, I. Observations upon the Nature, the Number, and the 
Operations of the Devils. II. A short Narrative of a late outrage 
committed by a knot of Witches in Swede-Land, [etc]". III. Some 
Councels directing a due Improvement of the Terrible things lately 
done : in New-England. IV. A Brief Discourse upon those Tempta- 
tions which are the more ordinary Devices of Satan. By Cotton 
Mother. Published by the special command, [etc.] 

4° Printed first, at Bostun ; repr. at London, for John Dunton, 1693. 

This is the first (and only complete) London edition. The last 
page (before the leaf of "Advertisements") is numbered 98, but the 
pagination is irregular, the number of pages being in fact, 106, exclu- 
sive of the three preliminary leaves not numbered. The leaf which in 
some copies precedes the Title, containing a Half-Title, and copy of the 
" Imprimatur," is wanting. 



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Mather (Increase). A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-Eng- 
land Witches. To which is added, Cases of Conscience concerning 
Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits, by Increase Mather, President of 
Harvard Colledge. (with a Postscript.), pp. (2), 10, (4), 39, (5). 

4° London, for John Dunton, 1693. 

The first part of the work (pp. 1-10) is Deodat Lawson's " True Nar- 
rative" etc., taken from Cotton Mather's " Wonders of the Invisible 
World." 

Jennings (David). An Abridgment of the Life of the late Reverend 
and Learned Dr. Cotton Mather... Recommended by I. Watts, D. D., 
pp. xii, (4), 144. 12° London, 1744. 

A volume, by Samuel Mather, Pastor of the Church at 
Windsor, Conn., has also been added to the Library, en- 
titled : 

Two Discourses by the late Reverend Mr. Samuel Mather, Pastor of the 
Church at Windsor.— I. A dead Faith anatomized. II. The Self- 
Justiciary, convicted and condemned, pp. (2) 108 (1) 82. 

12° Boston, He-Printed by J. Draper, for D. Henchman, Cornhill. 

MDCCXL. 

On page 50 of the list the author of the three first named 
books should have been stated as Samuel Mather of Witney. 




A LIST OF MATHER PUBLICATIONS 

ADDED TO THE LIBRARY OF THE 

AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 

From April, 1880, to April, 1887. 

The following list of Mather publications has been pre- 
pared by Edmund M. Barton, Librarian of the Society, and 
includes all titles added to the Library from the Brinley 
collection and other sources since the publication of the 
original list by Nathaniel Paine, in 1879, and his "Addenda," 
in April, 1880. 

References are made to the original "List" where other 
editions of the works hereinafter mentioned appear. 

AZARIAH MATHER. 
A Discourse concerning the Death of the Righteous ; Had at Lyme, occa- 
sion^ by the decease of the Reverend Mr. Moses Noyes. Who dyed 
November 10th, 1729. 8° pp. (4), 24. 

JV. London, Printed & Sold by T. Green, 1731. 

COTTON MATHER. 
MDCLXXXIII. The Boston Ephemeris. An Almanack for the (Dyoni- 
sian) Year of the Christian ^ra MDCLXXXIII. 12° pp. 28. 

Boston in New-England Printed by S. G. for b. b. lbW. 

Work upon the Ark. Meditations upon the Ark as a Type of the Church ; 

Delivered in a Sermon at Boston, and now Dedicated uuto the Service 

of All, but especially of those whose Concerns Lye in Ships. By 

Cotton Mather. 8° pp. (10), 54. . 

Boston Printed by Samuel Green, and Sold by Joseph Browning 

at the corner of the Prison Lane, 1689. 

The Present State of New England. Considered in a Discourse on the 
Necessities and Advantages of a Public Spirit in every Man ; Especially, 
at such a time as this. Made at the Lecture in Boston 20. d 1. m. 
1G90. Upon the News of an Invasion by bloody Indians and French- 
men, begun, upon us. By Cotton Mather. 8° pp. (2), 52. 

Boston: Printed by Samuel Green, 1690. 

Preparatory Meditations upon [S. Lee's] " The Day of Judgment." By 
Cotton Mather. 12° pp. 36. 

Boston in New-England Printed by Bartholomew Green for Nicholas 
Buttolph, at the Corner of Gutteridg's Goffee-House. 1692. 

Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion. Or the Character and Happiness 
of a Vertuous [sic] Woman : in a Discourse which Directs the Female- 
Sex how to Express the Fear of God in every Age and State of their 
Life ; and Obtain both Temporal and Eternal Blessedness. Written 
by Cotton Mather. 12° pp. 104. 

Cambridqe : Printed by S. G. and B. G. for Samuel Phillips 

at Boston, 1692. 
Also, third edition, 12° pp. (4) , 116. Boston, 1741. . 
For edition of 1694, see page 33. 



60 

The Wonders of the Invisible World. Observations as well Historical 
as Theological, upon the Nature, the Number, and the Operations of 

the Devils By Cotton Mather. 8° pp. (32), 151, (1), 32, (24). 

Boston Printed and Sold by Benjamin Harris, for Sam. Phillips. 1693. 
For London edition of the same year, see page 56. 

The Life and Death of the Reverend M 1 John Eliot, who was the First 
Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America. With an Account 
of the Wonderful Success which the Gospel has had amongst the 
Heathen in that Part of the World : And of the many strange Customs 
of the Pagan Indians in New-England. Written by Cotton Mather. 
The Third Edition carefully Corrected. 8° pp. (8), 168, (4). 

London : Printed for John Dunton, at the Raven in the Poultrey. 

MDCXCIV. 

See page 32 for Second Edition, 1691. 

A Good Man Making a Good End.. The Life and Death, of the Reverend 
Mr John Baily, ... in a Sermon, on the Day of his Funeral, . . . 16d. 
10m. 1697. By Cotton Mather. 12° pp. 88. 

Boston in N. E. : Printed by B. Green 1698. 

The Everlasting Gospel. The Gospel of Justification by the Righteous- 
ness of God, As 'tis Held and Preach'd in the Churches of New- 
England : Expressed in a Brief Discourse on that Important Article ; 
made at Boston in the year, 1699, by Cotton Mather. 12° pp. (32), 76. 

Boston: Printed by B. Green, and J. Allen , for Nicholas Buttolph. 1700. 

The Good Old Way. Or Christianity Described, From the Glorious 
Lustre of it, Appearing in the Lives of the Primitive Christians. An 
Essay tending, from Illustrious Examples of a Sober, & a Righteous, 
and a Godly Life, Occurring in the Ancient Church- History, to Revive 
the Languishing Interests of Genuine and Practical Christianity. 
12° pp. (2), 94. 

Boston: Printed by B. Green, for Benj. Eliot at his Shop under the West- 
End of the Town- House. 1706. 

The Day which the Lord hath made. A Discourse concerning the Insti- 
tution and Observation of the Lords-Day. i Delivered in a Lecture, at 
Boston 4d. lm. 1703. 8° pp. (2), 36, (2). 

Boston, N. E. He-printed by B. Green. 1707. 

With an Indian translation by Rev. Samuel Danforth. 

A Very Needful Caution. A Brief Essay, to discover the Sin that Slayes 
its Ten Thousands ; And Represent the Character and Condition of 
the Coveteous. With some Antidotes against the Infection of Covet- 
eousness and Earthly-Mindedness. 12° pp. 60. 

Boston in N~. E. Printed and Sold by Timothy Green. 1707. 

Winthropi Justa. A Sermon at the Funeral of the Hon ble John Winthrop, 
Esq. Late Governour of the Colony of Connecticut in New-England. 
Who Died at Boston Nov. 27 1707. in his 69th Year. Bv Cotton 
Mather. 12° pp. (4), 40. 

Boston 1708. 
See page 40 for London edition of 1710. 

Just Commemorations. The Death of Good Men, Considered; and the 
Characters of Some who have lately Died in the Service of the 
Churches, Exhibited. Unto which is added, a Brief Account of the 
Evangelical Work among the Christianized Indians of New England ; 
Whereof One of the Persons here Commemorated, was a Valuable and 
Memorable Instrument. 8° pp. (2) iv, 58. 

Boston in N. E. Printed by B. Green. [1715.] 



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A Sorrowful Spectacle. In Two Sermons. Occasioned by a Just Sen- 
tence of Death, on a Woman, . . . for the Murder of a Spurious Off- 
spring. With some Remarkable Things, relating to the Criminal ; pro- 
per for All to be informed of. By Cotton Mather. 12° pp. (2) vii. 3-92. 
Boston: Printed by T. Fleet & T. Cramp, for Samuel Gerrish. 1715. 

The Echo's of Devotion. A very brief and plain Essay on those Acts 
of Compliance which all Calls to Piety, are to be Entertained withal. 
More particularly, the most Edifying Way both of Reading the Scrip- 
ture, and of Hearing a Sermon, Proposed and Commended 

12° pp. 36. 

Boston: Printed by T. Fleet & T. Crump, for Samuel Gerrish. 1716. 

Vigilius. Or the Awakener, Making a Brief Essay, to Rebuke first the 
Natural Sleep Which too often proves a Dead Fly, in the Devotions 
of them that indulge it. And then the Moral Sleep, Wherein the 
Souls of Men frequently Omit the Duties, and Forfeit the Comforts of 
Religion in Earnest. 8° pp. (2), 14. 

Boston: Printed by J. Franklin. 1719. 

Detur Digniori. The Righteous Man described & asserted as the Excel- 
lent Man ; And the Excellencies of such an One demonstrated. In a 
Sermon, upon the Death of the Reverend Mr Joseph Gerrish, late 

Pastor to the Church in Wenham 12° pp. (2), 29. 

Boston : Printed by B. Green. 1720. 

Terra Beata. A Brief Essay, on the Blessing of Abraham; Even the 
Grand Blessing of a Glorious Redeemer. 12° pp. (2), 54. 

Boston: J. Phillips, mdccxxvi. 

A Father Departing. A Sermon on the Departure of the Venerable and 
Memorable Dr. Increase Mather, who Expired Aug. 23, 1723. In the 
Eighty-fifth Year of his Age. By One who, as a Son with a Father, 
served with him in the Gospel. 8° pp. 31. 

Boston : Printed by T. Fleet, for N. Belknap, at his Shop near Scarlet's 

Wharf. 1723. 

The Comfortable Chambers, Opened and Visited, upon the Departure 
of that Aged and Faithful Servant of God, Mr. Peter Thatcher. 8° 
pp. 28. 

Boston : Be-printed by Thomas Fleet, jun. mdccxcvi. 
For first edition, 1728, see page 48. 

Essays to do Good, Addressed to all Christians. By the late Cotton 

Mather. A New Edition improved by George Burder. 8° pp. 195 ( 1). 

Johnstown: Printed and Sold by Asa Child. 1815. 

For the edition of 1808 and one without date, see page 49. 
Early Piety : Exemplified in the Life and Death of Mr. Nathaniel Mather. 
12° pp. 74. Boston. [1857.] 

INCREASE MATHER. 

The Life and Death of that Reverend Man of God, Mr. Richard Mather, 
Teacher of the Church in Dorchester in New England. 4° pp. (4), 
38. Cambridge : Printed by S. G. and M. J. 1670. 

The Times of Men are in the hand of God. Or a Sermon occasioned by 
that awfull Providence which hapned [sic'] in Boston in New England, 
the 4th day of the 3d Moneth, 1675, (when part of a vessel was blown up 
in the Harbour, and nine men hurt, and three mortally wounded) where- 
in is shewed how we should sanctifie the dreadf ull Name of God under 
such awfull Dispensations. By Increase Mather, Teacher of a Church 
of Christ. 4° pp. (6), 21. Boston: Printed by John Foster. 1675. 



62 

The Judgment of Several Eminent Divines of the Congregational Way 
Concerning a Pastors Power Occasionally to Exert Ministerial Acts 
in another Church, besides that which is His Own Particular Flock. 
8° pp. (2), 13. 

Boston Printed by Benjamin Harris, and are to be Sold by Richard 

Wilkins. 1693. 

De Successu Evangelii Apud Indos in Nova-Anglia Epistola. Ad CI. 
Virum D. Johannem Leusdenum. A Crescentio Mathero. 8° pp. (2), 13. 

Londini, Typis J. G. 1688. 

Some Remarks on a Pretended Answer, to a Discourse concerning the 
Common-Prayer Worship. With an Exhortation to the Churches in 
New-England, to hold fast the Profession of their Faith without 
Wavering. By Increase Mather, D. D. 8° pp. 36. Appendix (2), 10. 
Printed for Nath. Hillier at the Princes Arm's in Leaden-Hall- Street, 
in London: and for the Book-sellers in Boston, in New-England. [1712]. 

Burnings Bewailed : in a Sermon, Occasioned by the Lamentable Fire 
which was in Boston, Octob. 2, 1711. In which the Sins which Pro- 
voke the Lord to Kindle Fires, are Enquired into. By Increase 
Mather, D.D. 8° pp. (4), 36. 

Boston Printed : Sold by Timothy Green. 1711. 
For second edition, 1712, see page 29. 

MOSES MATHER. 

The Visible Church, in Covenant with God ; Further Illustrated. Con- 
taining Also, A brief Representation of some other Gospel-Doctrines, 
which affect the Controversy. By Moses Mather, A. M. 8° pp. 84. 
New Haven : Printed by Thomas and Samuel Green, in the Old- 
Council Chamber, mdcclxx. 

NATHANAEL MATHER. 

1686. The Boston Ephemeris. An Almanack of Coelestial Motions of 
the Sun & Planets, with some of the principal Aspects. For the 
Year of the Christian iEra mdclxxxvi. Being in our Account the 
third after Leap-year, and from the Creation 5635. By Nattianael 
Mather. 12° pp. 16. 

New-England, Boston, Printed and Sold by Samuel Green, 1686. 

SAMUEL MATHER (of Boston). 

A Modest Account concerning the Salutations and Kissings in ancient 
Times : Wherein Mr. Sandeman's Attempt, to revive the holy and 
charitable Kiss, and the Love-Feasts, is considered : By Constant 
Rock-man, M. A. 8° pp. 19. 

Boston : N. E. mdcclxviii. 
The Sacred Minister: a new Poem, in five Parts; Representing his 
Qualifications for the Ministry, And his Life and Death in it. By 
Aurelius Prudentius, Americanus. 8° pp. 23. 

Boston, MDCCLXXIII. 

Christian Biography. Life of Dr. Cotton Mather. Of Boston, North 

America. Abridged from the account published by his son, the Rev. 

Samuel Mather. 12° pp. 72. [London] n. d. 

See page 50 for edition of 1729. 



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